🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 — Israeli PM Netanyahu planned a major attack on Iran for October 10, but US President Trump blocked the operation over concerns that renewed war could escalate ahead of the November 3 U.S. midterm elections.
The proposed multi-day operation would have targeted Iran's nuclear facilities, power plants and other critical infrastructure.
🇺🇸🇸🇦❗️ — The US State Department is preparing to order the departure of some personnel and family members from US embassies across the Gulf, US officials tell Reuters.
🇺🇸🇸🇦❗️ — US embassy staff and families ordered to leave Saudi Arabia, with families of embassy staff in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain also ordered to leave, diplomatic source tells AFP
🇦🇷💥🇪🇸🌹 — Argentine President Javier Milei calls Pedro Sánchez an “indefensible dictator” at an event in Madrid and urges voters to “kick the socialists out” in the next general election.
🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷❗️ — White House sources to Israel's Haaretz:
In the past few hours, there has apparently been a change in the American position in favor of a preemptive strike on Iran.
White House sources explain the change mainly due to the great weight that President Trump gave to the assessments and intelligence that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presented to him upon his return from the meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.
🇮🇱❌🇷🇺🇵🇸 — Far-left Russian propagandist Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, known online as Andrey, has been detained by Israeli forces for entering a restricted military zone during an attempted anti-Israel media stunt.
Andrey X moved to Israel at the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war and was granted citizenship due to his Jewish heritage to escape from Russian Army conscription
The radical propagandist has spent over two years attempting to smear Israelis living in Judea and Samaria as part of the 'settler violence' blood libel and for accusing Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being equal and no different from Russian President Vladimir Putin
🇺🇸 eBay plans to cut approximately 10% of its workforce as the online marketplace seeks to simplify its operations, according to an internal memo reported by Reuters.