Overnight outlets reported vessels hit near Qeshm Island and Hormuz with one killed, alongside a Houthi claim of striking a Saudi base wounding two, extending the Red Sea-Gulf escalation.
By afternoon focus shifted to an account of an Iranian rift, saying Basij commander Hossein Taeb ordered the July Hormuz tanker attack without the president and IRGC leadership to sabotage understandings with Washington, as Gulf-Iran talks on Hormuz were cancelled and Saudi Arabia was reported seeking Israeli help against the Houthis.
Parallel coverage tracked Jared Kushner's remarks that Washington used Israel's isolation after the failed Doha strike to press it into the Gaza deal. On the northern front, after the Ali Taher demolition, Defense Minister Katz warned anyone approaching the ridge would be destroyed amid reports Lebanon's army was stalling on disarming Hezbollah, while the IDF said it killed two Hamas members in a Gaza vehicle strike.