Iran war: Pezeshkian says US using ‘mother of all bombs’ for diplomacy

By Nils Adler, Heba Habib and Rached El-Moctar

Published On 11 Nov 202611 Nov 2026

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• Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has accused the US of conducting “diplomacy through threats” by using and invoking new military capabilities.
• The US House, which Republicans control until January, has voted 211 to 204 to send a resolution to impeach US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to committee, in effect sending the process into a procedural black hole. Eleven Democrats missed the vote, including Representative Jonathan Jackson, who blamed a traffic delay.
• Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has said that Israelis are “working overtime to drag the US into an endless war with Iran”, as Iranian security chief Mohsen Rezaei dismissed reports that talks are ongoing between Tehran and Washington.
• An oil tanker is on fire in the Strait of Hormuz after hitting a mine, says Iran’s army.

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  Iran’s Hormuz authority says it has taken ‘legal action’ against two ships over ‘forged documents’

  Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA), a body set up after the start of the US-Israel war on Iran to manage traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, says it has taken “legal action” against two bulk carriers it accused of using forged documents to sail through the waterway towards Gulf ports without its approval.

  The vessels avoided being added to the authority’s blacklist by accepting unspecified commitments set by the body, the PGSA said in a statement. It did not name the ships or say when the incidents took place.

  The authority also offered “lighter commitments” to other vessels that have violated its rules, if they admit the violations by email.

  The PGSA says vessels on its blacklist of non-compliant ships face fines, detention or seizure. On November 2 , it added 114 vessels to the list, nearly doubling the tally in the largest update since the list was created in August. Those additions included ships linked to South Korea’s Sinokor, the Kuwait Oil Tanker Company and Saudi carrier Bahri.
• 21m ago

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  Eight Palestinians killed in Gaza over past 24 hours: Health Ministry

  At least eight Palestinians have been killed and 29 wounded in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Ministry of Health.

  The ministry said 1,622 people have been killed and 5,878 wounded since a “ceasefire” took effect on October 11, 2025. Rescue teams have also recovered the bodies of 850 people over the same period.

  Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 74,653 Palestinians and wounded 176,007 since October 2023, the ministry said.

  

  A woman sits amid the debris of damaged shelters in the aftermath of Tuesday’s Israeli air strike on a metal foundry, in Gaza City [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
• 29m ago

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  IRGC says two tankers that struck mines overnight in Hormuz have been ‘abandoned’

  The naval arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says two oil tankers have been abandoned in the Strait of Hormuz after striking naval mines overnight, Iran’s Tasnim agency reports.

  The IRGC Navy said the vessels had their navigation and identification systems switched off and were transiting through Hormuz under the cover of US fighter jets when they hit mines and “suffered a massive explosion”.

  “They are now burning heavily and have been abandoned,” the IRGC said.

• 36m ago

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  F1 champion Lewis Hamilton visits Rafah border crossing

  Seven-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton has visited Egypt’s northern El Arish city, which borders Gaza, to see firsthand efforts to acquire humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza Strip.

  North Sinai Governor Khaled Megawer welcomed the British driver on Tuesday and showcased the Egyptian Red Crescent’s aid warehouses.

  The governor’s office shared videos on its official Facebook page featuring clips of the visit as Megawer briefed Hamilton on how relief aid is coordinated.

  Read more here.

  

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  Lewis Hamilton visits Rafah crossing to witness Gaza aid efforts
• 51m ago

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  Senior Iranian official says US-Israeli war is test of credibility of international order

  A senior Iranian diplomat has said the US-Israel war on Iran is a test of the credibility of the rules underpinning the UN Charter, according to the Mehr news agency.

  Asadollah Eshragh Jahromi, the Foreign Ministry’s director-general for international peace and security, said the attacks were launched “while diplomatic negotiations were still under way” at a time when there was “a positive prospect of reaching a diplomatic solution”.

  “If the use of force can become a normal tool for countries to pursue their foreign policy goals, and the United Nations is unable to condemn it, what guarantee is there that military action will not effectively replace diplomacy?” Eshragh Jahromi said.

  He said the war “must be viewed as more than a regional crisis”, calling it a test of rules on which the security of “all states, small and large” depends.

  He also accused the US and Israel of widespread violations of international humanitarian law, citing the attacks in Minab and Lamerd as examples.
• 1h ago

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  WATCH: What is the future of the US-Israel defence partnership?

  Trump has announced plans to end the billions of dollars in annual US military aid to Israel. But is a new deal in the works?

  Al Jazeera’s Marah Rayan explains:

  

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  Section 219: the future of US-Israeli defence partnership
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  Israeli forces expel olive pickers, spark fires in Syria’s Quneitra: Local media

  Israeli forces have pushed into Syria’s southern Quneitra countryside and expelled olive pickers from their land, according to Quneitra’s government media centre.

  An Israeli patrol of several military vehicles carrying soldiers entered the area west of the town of al-Rafid, the centre said. The soldiers then searched workers harvesting olives before forcing them out and preventing them from reaching their farmland.

  In the northern Quneitra countryside, Israeli forces fired smoke bombs at farmland around the village of Trinjah, sparking fires in the area, state-run Al-Ikhbariah TV reported.
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  Iran will not make concessions if US does not meet its conditions

  Atefeh Toghiani, a professor of political science at the University of Tehran, says Iran will not make concessions on its nuclear programme until Washington first meets its conditions.

  “If the Americans want Iran to trust them, or to make any concessions on the nuclear file, the Americans must return to the commitments they signed up to in the past,” Toghiani told Al Jazeera, speaking from Tehran.

  “If the Iranians are to commit to anything, the Americans must also honour their own commitments,” she added. “The Iranians say they must first see the preconditions met, and only then enter talks on other issues.”

  Toghiani said Iran’s position can be summed up in two demands: “An end to the war and the confrontation with Iran” and “some form of compensation, through lifting the blockade or easing the economic burden”.

  “If you give us these, we might enter negotiations that address American concerns about the nuclear file,” she said, describing Tehran’s message to Washington.

  Toghiani also said the US was “not going to back down” on sanctions because it sees them as useful for applying pressure, and “economic pressure is the only option available to them”.
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  Pezeshkian say US threatening to use ‘mother of all bombs’ to pursue diplomacy

  Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has accused the US of conducting “diplomacy through threats” by using and invoking new military capabilities.

  Pezeshkian said despite the US stating that it had “waged war claiming to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons”, it had used a Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) in an attack that killed 21 civilians at a sports hall in Lamerd, Iran, on the war’s first day.

  He also pointed to US media reports that the Pentagon is considering deploying a Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) – nicknamed the “mother of all bombs” – against an underground Iranian nuclear site.

  “No contradiction, but a disgrace,” Pezeshkian said. “Who threatens global peace and security?”