The Globe Letter

BREAKING: The U.S. is preparing for a short but intense war with Iran and directly warning several Gulf Arab allies to prepare for a possible military campaign after the November midterm elections, per The Wall Street Journal. Trump is reportedly leaning toward fresh strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites and critical infrastructure. Washington is moving another Patriot system to Israel, shifting troops away from vulnerable bases, restocking munitions and preparing to deploy roughly 20 warships to the Middle East next month. Iran has warned that any new attack will trigger an all-out war, threatening to expand the conflict across the region and target critical energy infrastructures.

BREAKING: A sudden wave of fresh, first-time Polymarket wallets is dumping massive capital into Benjamin Netanyahu on Israel's Election Day, with individual positions of roughly $102,000, $90,000, and $72,000 flagged by trackers, per Polymarket. The concentrated buying stands in stark contrast to the broader market, where Polymarket gives Netanyahu only a 27% to 35% chance of remaining prime minister, while rival Gadi Eisenkot sits at 49% to 58%. This comes after the Trump administration reportedly explored a deal to keep Netanyahu in power, with U.S. officials discussing a unity government that would allow him to remain prime minister even if he loses.

BREAKING: Trump administration officials are secretly exploring a deal that could keep Benjamin Netanyahu in power even if he loses Tuesday’s Israeli election — by forming a unity government with rival Gadi Eisenkot, per The Washington Post. Netanyahu has reportedly offered to abandon far-right ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, pitching himself to Washington as its preferred partner for resuming military operations against Iran. So, the Iran war will continue irrespective of the Israeli election results.

BREAKING: U.S. forces are now considering launching major strikes on Iran within 96 hours of an order from Donald Trump, targeting nuclear facilities, energy infrastructure, and military bases, per CNN. CNN reports that sufficient forces are already in place. The target list goes beyond limited “mowing the lawn” strikes and includes nuclear facilities, energy infrastructure, and military sites. One official told CNN: “It will be a big effort.” CNN also reported that Iran could retaliate massively within hours of the U.S. strikes.

BREAKING: Iran is now threatening to strike Israel's Sorek, Hadera, Ashdod and Ashkelon desalination plants; Haifa oil refineries; the Orot Rabin and Eshkol power plants; Ashdod oil refineries and fuel storage; the Dimona nuclear research center; and critical bridges and highway interchanges if Israel and the U.S. launch another attack on Iran, according to head of Iran's parliamentary National Security Commission. Desalination facilities supply around 80% of Israel's municipal drinking water. Orot Rabin (2,590 MW) and Eshkol (912 MW) anchor the national grid. The Haifa refinery processes roughly 197,000 barrels per day, while Ashdod adds 110,000 bpd. Highway 6, the country's main artery, carries 260,000 vehicles daily. And Dimona sits just 13 kilometers from the city. Tehran is threatening to paralyze Israel's water, power, fuel, and mobilization routes in one blow.

**BREAKING:** Iran has mapped out the Gulf’s seven main undersea communication cables and drawn up detailed plans to cut them while actively blocking repair efforts to prolong a regional communications blackout, per Reuters. The officials said Tehran has pinpointed the cables and intends to prevent any repairs to prolong a communications blackout. These cables carry an estimated $10 trillion in daily financial transactions, meaning a successful strike would freeze regional commerce, cloud computing, and global banking traffic. A single undersea cable repair typically costs between $1 million and $3 million, but the International Cable Protection Committee estimates restoration costs can reach $50 million to $150 million per cable depending on the damage and location. If multiple cables are severed in a conflict zone, the total repair bill could easily exceed half a billion dollars. The average undersea cable repair took 51 days in 2024, and wartime restrictions could delay repairs even further, turning a temporary outage into a prolonged digital siege.

BREAKING: The U.S. is now actively preparing the USS George Washington for a massive bombing campaign against Iran, with the carrier undergoing a heavy munitions resupply in the Arabian Sea, loading standoff land-attack missiles and bunker-buster bombs, per The Wall Street Journal. During a rare visit aboard the carrier, WSJ reporter Shelby Holliday witnessed massive stacks of munitions boxes as crews loaded weapons and prepared aircraft for possible renewed military action, with officials confirming the military is positioning itself for a fresh wave of attacks. It seems another round of attack is inevitable. Oil prices will skyrocket.

BREAKING: Iran warns it will target U.S. aircraft carriers, American personnel, oil pipelines, energy infrastructure, airports and civilian and economic assets across the Gulf if the U.S. and Israel launch fresh attacks, per The Wall Street Journal. Iranian officials also warned that AI infrastructure, data centers and undersea internet cables across up to seven Gulf countries could be struck, declaring “zero red lines” if war resumes. A senior Iranian security official told Al-Mayadeen that Tehran will no longer distinguish between Trump and Netanyahu, warning that U.S. and Israeli targets will be struck without distinction.

BREAKING: Iran is now officially threatening to directly target Israel’s highly secretive nuclear facility at Dimona, releasing a dossier titled “New Fronts Will Be Opened” featuring the reactor marked “SOON,” per Tasnim News. The facility, officially known as the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, is widely assessed to be central to Israel’s undeclared nuclear weapons program, which Israel has neither confirmed nor denied for decades. The threat comes after Iranian ballistic missiles reportedly struck near Dimona earlier this year despite Israel’s multilayered air defenses, and as Tehran warns that any US or Israeli attack will be treated as an all-out war.

BREAKING: Iran has reportedly activated its "dead hand" doctrine as Iranian officials now believe a joint U.S.-Israeli attack is imminent and have instructed the country’s armed forces to directly activate the decentralized “Mosaic Defense” doctrine, with commanders reportedly receiving extensive lists of U.S. economic and political targets to strike if war erupts, per Fars News. The activation shifts Iran's military to 31 autonomous provincial commands, designed to ensure devastating retaliatory strikes can be launched even if central leadership is decapitated in a first wave of attacks. Tehran is pre-authorizing field commanders to fire without waiting for orders from the top. It comes as Trump says the U.S. is "not negotiating" and "something will happen soon," Washington orders the complete evacuation of its embassy staff from the Gulf, and the IRGC claims to have struck seven vessels in a single night. The region is now on a hair trigger for total war.

BREAKING: Donald Trump is now reportedly considering launching a preemptive strike against Iran, with White House sources telling Haaretz the American position shifted in favor of military action in the past few hours, driven by intelligence assessments presented by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after his secret meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu. The shift marks a reversal from Trump's earlier decision to halt a fully prepared Israeli bombing campaign over fears of an energy price spike before the November 3 midterms. Trump publicly confirmed the diplomatic freeze, stating the U.S. is "not negotiating" with Iran and that a development is expected "fairly soon." It seems a joint U.S.-Israeli attack is inevitable before the Israeli election. Oil prices will skyrocket in the upcoming days.

BREAKING: The US has ordered all American staff to evacuate its embassy in Saudi Arabia, with staff and their families instructed to leave immediately, while evacuation orders reportedly extend to diplomats’ families across the UAE, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain, per AFP. Washington is now moving to pull American families out of multiple Gulf countries at once — a stark escalation as fears of a wider regional war intensify.

BREAKING: Iran now says it has placed its military on the highest alert, warning that any attack by the U.S. or Israel, whether joint or separate, will be treated as an all-out war and declaring Tehran has made a “definitive decision” to respond “without any limits or restraint,” per Press TV.

BREAKING: The U.S. is signaling a historic withdrawal from the Middle Eastern security umbrella, with Trump envoy Tom Barrack directly warning Gulf allies that Washington can no longer guarantee their security indefinitely and that they must take responsibility for their own defense, marking the end of the U.S. security umbrella, per the Wall Street Journal. Speaking in Doha, Barrack declared that the 80-year-old U.S. security-for-oil arrangement is no longer sustainable, stating: "America as the guarantor to the world, for the last 80 years, it is no longer there." He pointed to regional defense partnerships as the way forward, calling the shift a "realignment" rather than an abandonment. The blunt warning comes as Gulf states face direct Iranian strikes on U.S. military infrastructure and growing uncertainty over Washington's future military commitment to the region. Financial pledges have offered no guarantee of protection—Qatar's $400 million jet and $1 trillion investment did not stop Iran from striking its LNG terminal, and Saudi Arabia's pleas for direct support in Yemen have gone unanswered.

BREAKING: The US is now deploying the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Middle East for another major wave direct military posturing against Iran, adding over 10,000 sailors and Marines to the region, with the force set to arrive around the November midterms, per Fox News. The ships will join the USS George Washington and USS George H.W. Bush, restoring a three-carrier presence for the first time since April and giving Trump expanded military options as he weighs renewed strikes on Iran. It comes as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth secretly met Netanyahu in Israel to discuss resuming major combat operations, and as Iran stalls negotiations to deny Trump a pre-midterm victory. The fleet is arriving as the votes are counted — and the timing is not accidental.

BREAKING: A potential joint U.S.-Israeli attack is now on the table after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly met last night with U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and UAE representatives at Israel's Ovda Air Base, just eight days before the Israeli election and amid active discussions about resuming major combat operations against Iran, per Axios and Ynetnews. The unannounced meeting was also attended by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz and National Security Council head Shmuel Ben Ezra, with foreign representatives apparently from the UAE also present at the base where the U.S. deploys refueling planes and fighter jets.

BREAKING: Iran is now directly threatening to completely cut the Gulf’s seven main undersea cables, with IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebi warning that seven major cables run beneath the Strait of Hormuz. “We are reminding them of this so that the enemy knows,” he said, per Fars News. The cables include FALCON, AAE-1, TGN-Gulf and SEA-ME-WE, carrying critical data between the Gulf, Europe and Asia. The implications could be catastrophic for the region: these cables carry up to 15% of global data traffic, and a successful strike could sever 70% to 90% of internet connectivity for Gulf states, with knock-on effects reaching India, Pakistan and East Africa. This is Tehran’s third digital warning in about a week, following Mohsen Rezaei’s threat against data cables, data centers and AI facilities, and Ghalibaf’s proposed “Persian Gulf Data Authority.” Hormuz was oil. Now it’s the internet.

BREAKING: Donald Trump is now considering a major attack against Iran, reportedly discussing plans with senior advisers, Pentagon officials and the CIA to strike Kharg Island — the nerve center of Iran’s oil industry, handling roughly 90% of its crude exports, per Erem News, cited by Israel Hayom. The proposed targets include oil storage tanks, pipelines, tanker-loading facilities and military sites, aiming to cripple Tehran’s main oil-export lifeline and force it to accept U.S. demands on its nuclear program and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz before the November 3 midterms. Simultaneously, the U.S. has issued urgent security and travel alerts across the Middle East — from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE to Iraq, Lebanon, Oman, Yemen, Iran and Israel — warning Americans of potential missile and drone attacks, airspace closures and flight cancellations, and urging them to consider leaving immediately.

BREAKING: Israel is openly preparing for a future completely without the United States, with Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledging for the first time the possibility of a breakdown in the U.S.–Israel alliance and warning that "in two years, a President, man or woman, could come to power who is very hostile to Israel," per The Jerusalem Post. Speaking at an event presenting his security doctrine just nine days before Israel's October 27 election, Netanyahu said Israel must use the remaining years of Trump's presidency to strengthen its position while preparing for a dramatic shift in American policy. "First, we must do everything we can during these two years... in the American arena, through good times and bad," he said. "The second thing is to create other alliances. That is what I am working on now with many countries in our region and outside it."