Trump hints US could strike Iran, warns time coming

 

Iran war live: Trump hints US could strike Iran, warns time coming

• US President Donald Trump tells reporters that the country faces a choice to either make a deal with Iran or “blow them up”.
• US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has told military leaders at the Quantico Marine base outside Washington, DC, that American forces have “destroyed” Iran’s navy, air force, defence systems, leadership and military-industrial capacity, while also crippling its nuclear ambitions.
• Iran says it has received a US counterproposal regarding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz as part of diplomatic efforts to break the deadlock over the ongoing conflict.

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  6 killed as IRGC raid targets ‘terrorists’ planning attack near Tehran

  Iranian forces have killed six members of a “terrorist group” allegedly planning an operation in Manjilabad near Tehran.

  Iranian state media reported soldiers with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps recovered explosives from a home and “clearance operations” are underway in the village in Tehran province, 44km (27 miles) southwest of the capital.

  “The operation is ongoing with the aim of completely clearing the site and confronting the terrorist elements,” Tasnim news agency reported.

  Iran has repeatedly accused the US and Israel of fomenting unrest by arming and funding opposition groups in the country.

  

  Basij paramilitary troops affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps [Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu]
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  Gaza’s healthcare crisis leaves breast cancer patients without early detection

  The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has warned that breast cancer patients in Gaza face a “catastrophic health and humanitarian reality” that denies them basic medical care and their right to treatment.

  In a press release, the ministry said that early detection and diagnosis services are now “extremely limited and practically non-existent” because of severe shortages and repeated breakdowns of mammography equipment, as well as a lack of laboratory solutions and supplies, stripping women of the chance for early diagnosis.

  Breast cancer treatment in Gaza was almost completely devoid of approved protocols, with departments suffering critical shortages of chemotherapy drugs, hormonal therapies, and targeted treatments, it added.

  According to the ministry, before Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the coastal enclave recorded about 360 new breast cancer cases annually, a figure that dropped to 250 and 260 in 2024 and 2025 respectively.

  “With the collapse of the early detection and diagnosis system, what is recorded in the registries does not necessarily reflect what is happening on the ground,” it said.

  “Based on pre-war rates, it was expected that we would be dealing with more than a thousand new cases within about three years.”

  

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  Gaza mother with breast cancer fears time is running out for treatment
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  Oil falls following US-Iran counterproposal

  Oil prices have dropped about 1 percent amid a cautious diplomatic back-and-forth between Tehran and Washington, Reuters reports.

  Brent crude futures fell 1.1 percent to $96.92 a barrel as of 04:30 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude dipped 1.4 percent to $89.18 a barrel.

  Both benchmarks rose about $1 a barrel on Wednesday.

  Brent saw a monthly gain of about 14 percent in September – its biggest since July – while WTI increased by about 5 percent on the month.

  

  Fuel prices are displayed at a Texaco petrol station in Northwich, United Kingdom [Christopher Furlong/Getty]
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  Israeli forces arrest father and two sons during West Bank raids

  Israeli forces have arrested a Palestinian man alongside his two sons in the town of Kafr ad-Dik in the northern occupied West Bank, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

  The military stormed the town at dawn before raiding and ransacking the home of Majdi al-Deek and his sons.

  Forces have also raided the town of Tammun with several military patrols and infantry forces, according to Wafa, and searched many homes, but withdrew without reporting any arrests.