🇺🇸⚡️ — Bloomberg is also reporting that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is considering leaving the Trump administration following Republicans' heavy midterm election losses.
Rubio and his advisers are evaluating his political future, although he has not decided whether to resign from his positions as secretary of state and national security adviser, and no departure timeline has been established.
Sources say Rubio has discussed the possibility of stepping down with White House officials, who have urged him to remain in the administration.
🇺🇸⚡️ — California Governor Gavin Newsom has commuted the death sentences of all 548 inmates on the state's death row to life imprisonment without parole, marking the largest mass commutation of death sentences in modern U.S. history.
Newsom said his decision was driven by his moral opposition to capital punishment.
🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — A senior Iranian official tells Reuters that Iran has sent a United States a proposal regarding the Iranian nuclear program via Qatari mediators. However, the proposal will only be discussed once the United States agrees to Iran's seven conditions.
🇮🇶⚡️ — Patriotic Union of Kurdistan president Balef Talabani has announced the PUK's withdrawal from the Kurdistan Regional Government and has threatened to form a rival government if the Kurdistan Democratic Party forms a parliament.
🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — Iran's IRGC Aerospace Force announces intercepting a second American-operated MQM-170 Outlaw reconnaissance UAV operating above Qeshm Island, Iran with electronic warfare.
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🇺🇸⚡️ — Several vehicles were filmed arriving at the White House's West Wing an hour ago, including a vehicle carrying Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine. It is likely a meeting related to Iran is ongoing, given recent developments in both American and Israeli politics.
🇺🇸🇦🇪🇮🇷⚡️ — Assuming all these MQM-170s are MQM-170C Outlaw G2s, these are being launched from the United Arab Emirates. MQM-170C UAVs operate with a ~60-mile nautical mile communications radius, making the only possible launch platforms the northern UAE and/or Oman's Musandam Peninsula.
In my opinion, the recent uptick in MQM-170C activity is due to additional deliveries being carried out by Griffith Aerospace. A $67.9M contract for MQM-170C procurement specifically for Operation Epic Fury was signed earlier this year and is scheduled to complete on March 30, 2027. Some deliveries have likely been completed already.
🇮🇱🇺🇸⚡️ — Israel's President Isaac Herzog:
The suspension of U.S. aid came as a complete shock to me.
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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — Iran's IRGC Aerospace Force announces intercepting an American-operated MQM-170 Outlaw reconnaissance UAV operating above Qeshm Island, Iran with electronic warfare.
🇺🇸🇧🇷⚡️ — Defeated Brazilian right-wing presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro denied in an interview with NYT that any government assisted him in his escape to the United States, saying he was the architect of his plan.
Bolsonaro also reasserted that he was the true winner of Brazil's presidential election, claiming voter fraud, vote machine tampering, and Lula da Silva's alleged increased access to funds gave him an unfair disadvantage.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Court documents reviewed by AP show that the U.S. government held talks with Iran on deporting Iranians as the Iran War waged on, with some documents dated mid-October saying the Iranians would be deported to a third country.
The documents show continued collaboration between American and Iranian officials on Iranians being sent back to Iran, specifically in regards to travel documents and "avenues for removal".
This came amidst certainly by U.S. officials that deported Iranians would face peril if sent back to Iran.
🇮🇷🇷🇺🇺🇸⚡️ — Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Major General Mohsen Rezaei stated Western responses to Tehran's demands remain unconvincing, emphasizing that the U.S. and its allies must explicitly fulfill Iran's set conditions, reports Tasnim News.
The statement came during a two-hour Kremlin meeting where Rezaei delivered a message from Iran's Supreme Leader to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️ — A U.S. official tells i24NEWS that a joint American-Israeli strike against Iran remains on the table. A limited strike solely against Iranian nuclear facilities including Pickaxe Mountain is being considered, as well as a broader strike including energy infrastructure.
🇺🇳🇦🇪🇨🇴⚡️ — The UAE recruited Colombian mercenaries to support Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to a confidential United Nations investigation obtained by NYT.
The report, submitted to the UN Security Council last week, details how an Emirati security company with close government connections trained the Colombian fighters in Abu Dhabi before transporting them into Sudan through territories controlled by UAE-backed groups in Libya and Somalia.
The mercenaries provided drone operations, artillery support, and military training to the RSF.
The findings have also increased scrutiny of UAE diplomat Lana Nusseibeh's candidacy for UN secretary-general, particularly given her previous denials of Emirati involvement in Sudan's war on the side of the RSF.
🇺🇸⚡️ — A U.S. official tells Axios that the U.S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt will make port in Singapore for a few days. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is not expected to reach the CENTCOM area-of-responsibility until mid-November at the earliest.
🇺🇸⚡️ — U.S. tech stocks had a significant selloff today; $NVDA and $TSLA had the biggest losses. This comes amidst a broader selloff in AI companies over recent days.
🇮🇱⚡️ — If both Shas and UTJ join Eisenkot's Change Bloc, this will create a razor-thin 61 seat majority government with Eisenkot as PM. Ra'am and Joint List would both be absent from this government, as would Likud.
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🇮🇱⚡️ — BREAKING: Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu has agreed to work alongside Israeli Ultra-Orthodox party United Torah Judaism in a hypothetical government headed by Gadi Eisenkot. A compromise was reached on Ultra-Orthodox conscription.
🇺🇸⚡️ — Q: What do you think you would be doing now if you only did four years in the military?
CENTCOM's Brad Cooper: I'm pretty sure I would own a bar on a beach somewhere. I like the sun. I like the beach.
🇺🇸⚡️ — CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper:
It's called service for a reason. You're going to give more than you're going to get.
But if you find satisfaction in giving, you'll have no greater satisfaction than serving in the United States military in particular.
