The war in Iran could still escalate further. The United States is considering a new wave of attacks against Iranian nuclear infrastructure in which they would use the "mother of all bombs," according to several government sources revealed to CNN. The model in question is the GBU-43/B MOAB, a massive GPS-guided air-blast bomb that constitutes the largest non-nuclear projectile in the United States military arsenal.

Russia, hybrid warfare, Iran, artificial intelligence. The head of MI5, the British domestic intelligence service, Ken McCallum, warned this Tuesday of the rise of increasingly growing threats against the United Kingdom, and against the West in general. And he did so by emphasizing Moscow and Tehran as the main agents responsible for destabilization operations.

The King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, the second busiest in Saudi Arabia, has remained closed this Monday after several days of missile attacks claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels. This weekend alone, projectile impacts caused at least fourteen deaths and more than 300 injuries, according to available tolls. Given this situation, the airport is expected to remain closed until next Saturday, October 17, according to an official aeronautical notice issued this Monday and reported by Reuters.

An oil tanker sailing off the north coast of Qatar was hit this Thursday by "several projectiles" which caused an undetermined number of casualties, according to a British maritime security agency. The attack comes after Iran announced it would close a route in the Strait of Hormuz used to bypass the blockade imposed by Tehran on maritime traffic. This week, attacks against oil tankers sailing there have reached their highest level since the start of the war against Iran—at least 12 have been recorded against crude oil and liquefied natural gas transport vessels—according to maritime security companies, which has once again pushed the price of oil above $100 a barrel. The Strait of Hormuz is vital to the global economy: before the start of the war, approximately one-fifth of the planet's oil and liquefied natural gas passed through this maritime route.

Seventh arrest in connection with the alleged terrorist plot against the British airbase RAF Fairford, 160 kilometers west of London. This Tuesday, a 22-year-old British citizen was arrested in Westminster, in the center of the capital. The counter-terrorism police accuse him of preparing terrorist acts. The six people previously arrested, five British nationals aged between 23 and 25 and one British citizen of Iranian origin with dual nationality, were released on bail last week. However, they remain under investigation.

New chapter in the already endless serial about the alleged plot against the RAF Fairford air base. The United States has withdrawn throughout this Sunday all the bombers –a dozen– that it had deployed there after air force commanders received new information about a possible terrorist attack, with support from Iran, against the facility. The withdrawal occurred with such urgency that some of the planes took off while the tanker aircraft necessary to support them in flight were still being activated, according to American sources cited by The New York Times.

“The Flydubai flight and the indomitability of the Jews”, “The avoided Flydubai tragedy highlights Israeli courage” or “Extraordinary heroism and nearly miraculous circumstances prevent an air catastrophe” are some of the headlines that can be read these days in Israel. Two days after the incident with Flydubai flight FZ1073, the feeling in the country is one of having dodged a tragedy, but also of having discovered a crack in air security, in one of the countries most obsessed with this issue.

Twenty-four hours after British Prime Minister Andy Burnham stated that there were "solid indications" of Iranian involvement in the alleged plot against the British Royal Air Force base in Fairford, Scotland Yard, London's Metropolitan Police, has arrested a 25-year-old man with dual British and Iranian nationality in the last few hours. The man was arrested on Thursday in Westminster, in central London, on charges of preparing terrorist acts. Another man, a 26-year-old British citizen, was questioned. Police have searched two properties in this central district of the capital.

On the eve of the election campaign, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted this Thursday that the pilot accused of trying to crash a flight heading to Tel Aviv on Wednesday, which was carrying mostly Israeli citizens, underwent a process of "radical Islamist indoctrination." He stated this in an interview with Fox News, in which he also hinted at a possible role for Iran in the episode that is being investigated as an attempted attack.

Between Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon, there have been two new plot twists in the increasingly tangled story of the alleged attack on the RAF Fairford base. This Wednesday afternoon, in statements to several British media outlets, Prime Minister Andy Burnham endorsed the hypothesis put forward by United States President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, regarding a possible Iranian involvement in the incident.

The United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, insisted early this Tuesday on the theory of a foreign hand behind the incident that took place over the weekend in the vicinity of the RAF Fairford air base, 160 kilometers west of London, in the idyllic Cotswolds region. Speaking to the Fox network, and without wishing to go into much detail, Rubio asserted that "it is a situation in which there is clearly the hand of a foreign actor."

The alleged Iranian plot of the also alleged attack against the Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Fairford, used by the United States in its bombings against Iran, is deflating by the moment. The five arrested early Sunday morning, suspected of a possible terrorist attack, have been provisionally released this Monday afternoon. The arrest took place after a resident of the small village of Whelford, one of those surrounding the base, alerted to the presence of three white vans that were blocking access to her property, and saw a group of hooded people in balaclavas nearby.

The war between Iran and the United States is entering a phase of high tension once again. After weeks in which indirect contacts have kept a diplomatic path open, Washington has rejected Tehran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while Iran is hardening its military discourse and warning that it is prepared for a new American offensive.

There is a strait south of the Red Sea that helps explain why the Houthis have ceased to be just an actor in the Yemen war: Bab el-Mandeb, the maritime passage that connects the Gulf of Aden with the Red Sea and through which 12% of global trade passes. In recent weeks, the group, aligned with Iran, has advanced along the western coast of Yemen and has consolidated positions at strategic points in the strait. At the same time, has resumed attacks against Saudi Arabia and has announced a blockade against ships linked to the kingdom.Now, the Houthis have a position that allows them to threaten one of the main maritime routes between Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. And they do so while the war between Iran and the United States has turned the Strait of Hormuz into the other major focus of maritime tension in the region.“The Houthis have a real capacity for pressure. They cannot indefinitely close traffic through the Red Sea, but they can certainly increase costs, generate uncertainty, and periodically interrupt commercial and energy flows,” explains Neil Quilliam to ARA, a researcher at the Middle East and North Africa program at the international analysis center Chatham House. According to the expert, they do not need to close the strait: it is enough for them to increase the risk.If sailing through the Red Sea is too expensive or unsafe, companies can divert ships around the Cape of Good Hope, on the Atlantic coast of South Africa, with more days of navigation and higher costs. Thus, Tehran and its allies can exert pressure from two different points on two key routes for global trade and energy.The Houthis, who officially call themselves Ansar Allah (Partisans of God), are part of the so-called "axis of resistance," the network of armed and political actors linked to Iran, and they receive military and technological support from Tehran. A 2024 UN report documents transfers of military material, assistance, and training linked to Iran and other actors in the axis to the Zaydi Shia group. Although Iran denies supplying weapons to the group and claims its support is only political, the Houthis have gone from being a local militia in northern Yemen to possessing about 350,000 fighters and a significant arsenal of missiles, drones, and anti-ship weapons.The role of the Houthis in the US-Iran confrontation

Various reports from the analysis centers Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Chatham House point out that the Houthis can now act as a negotiation instrument for Iran before Washington, in a war that has already been going on for seven months. But this does not mean that Tehran controls the group's decisions. The movement has a command structure, territorial interests, and its own political agenda. Control of the coast, in fact, responds to its own interests: it gives them more capacity to pressure Saudi Arabia, strengthens their position ahead of future negotiations regarding Yemen, and expands their control over the oil and gas in the areas they dominate.

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The United Nations was created by the San Francisco Charter in 1945 with the goal that the international community would have a forum to discuss global security issues without having to resort to armed conflict. The idea was not to repeat the mistakes of the interwar League of Nations and to have a truly representative body where all countries, however small, could have a voice and a vote to preserve the most precious good, peace. Surely, the creation of the Security Council with five permanent members, and therefore with veto power, already perverted the initial objective and has turned the UN into an inoperative entity, but what had never been seen before is the spectacle offered on Tuesday by Donald Trump threatening Iran with annihilation from the speakers' rostrum. This Wednesday, the Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, appeared to show defiance and warn that "they have tested the strength and firmness of Iran, and they have learned that they cannot make Iran surrender".

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The UN concludes that the United States committed war crimes in Iran on February 28, the day Washington and Tel Aviv launched the offensive that initiated the war against the ayatollahs. The United Nations mission for the Persian country points to two air strikes to support its accusation: the one that took place against a school in Minab, in the south of the country, in which 120 children died, and a precision missile attack that killed 22 civilians in a sports complex and a residential area in Lamerd, also in the south.

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“They riddled the car with bullets. I told the children to hide under the seats”: this is how Zeinab Molaierad remembers the death of her 9-year-old son, Kian Pirfalak, in September 2022. The family was returning home to the Iranian city of Izeh when plainclothes officers opened fire on the vehicle. The authorities attributed the deaths that evening to a terrorist attack. It is one of the hundreds of cases collected in the Amnesty International report Architects of Atrocities, a thousand-page investigation published this Wednesday, coinciding with the second anniversary of the murder of the young Mahsa Gina Amini, arrested by the morality police for not wearing her veil in accordance with their strict rules. A death that triggered a historic protest movement drowned in blood by the regime of the ayatollahs.

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The United States military attacked three Iranian oil tankers this Saturday, according to the Central Command (Centcom) in a statement, in which it justified the action as a response to attacks by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard against two US warships patrolling in the region's waters. This episode of cross-attacks represents an escalation of the conflict, which remains deadlocked after more than half a year.

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Iran has denounced that the United States allegedly committed "war crimes" after one of its missiles killed four people early this morning at a wedding being held in the south of the country. The Islamic Republic has also counted at least 68 injured following the crossfire that the Revolutionary Guard and US forces engaged in on Tuesday in a resumption of hostilities in the region.

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Crossfire reignites in the Middle East after a month of relative calm. US President Donald Trump has promised that the military will respond to the missiles that Iran launched early this morning against two US bases in Jordan. "We will hit them hard," the Republican said in statements to Fox, where he confirmed that US forces intercepted six Iranian missiles. The Islamic Republic had opened fire early this morning against the US's Arab ally in retaliation for the US attack on Sunday against two Iranian platforms on the island of Larak, located near the Strait of Hormuz. In a statement released by the Iranian agencies Fars and Tasmin, the main military arm of the Islamic Republic specified that the attack was carried out with drones and left several dead and injured, although it did not specify how many.

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