CENTCOM:

The Strait of Hormuz is open to all vessels seeking to lawfully transit the international waterway. U.S. forces are positioned and prepared to ensure that freedom of navigation remains available despite unwarranted Iranian aggression, harassment, threats, and arbitrary declarations. Iran does not control the strait. Traffic is flowing.

WATCH: Russian mobile fire group training backfires after troops mount a YakB-12.7 helicopter rotary machine gun on a static stand.

Iran's Strait Authority says transit through the Strait of Hormuz is temporarily suspended due to recent U.S. military actions in the region.

Netanyahu on Lindsey Graham:

He was a wonderful, wonderful friend, a great American patriot, and a great champion of the Israel-American alliance.

And I'll miss him personally a lot, a lot. I really, really thought the world of him.

And I think the world has lost a great human being. America's lost a great senator and we have lost a great friend.

Netanyahu on Lindsey Graham:

You remember the Superman comics: "Truth, justice and the American way."

That was Lindsey Graham.

Q: You had no greater ally in Congress than Senator Graham. Who do you think will pick up that mantle?

Netanyahu: There are quite a few candidates.

Netanyahu:

We value every human life.

Netanyahu on Lindsey Graham:

In the last conversation I had with Lindsey Graham, I told him, "We can finance our own defense."

He went ballistic. He said, "No way—you can't do that!"

He was so committed to Israel's security that he actually argued with me to keep American aid flowing to Israel.

CENTCOM:

Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz. It remains an international waterway. U.S. forces are positioned and prepared to keep it that way.

Q: If you had one word to remember Lindsey Graham, what would it be?

Netanyahu: Patriot.

Trump says he spoke to Lindsey Graham "minutes before" Graham's death.

Syria's new parliament met for the first time since Bashar al-Assad's ouster, marking a symbolic step in the country's transition.

Trump on Lindsey Graham's death:

This is a big blow to the SAVE America Act.

Israeli fighter jets struck the Al-Sinaa area in western Gaza City.

Trump on Iran:

They agreed to a deal yesterday. Perfect deal for us. No nuclear. They gave up everything.

And then after that, they left the room, and within an hour they launched a drone at a ship.

WATCH: Footage from the moment of the Israeli bombing in Gaza.

Israeli elections will be held on Oct. 27.

Source: i24

After Senator Lindsey Graham's death, Representative Nancy Mace is considering a run for his vacant Senate seat and is starting polling for a possible campaign.

However, she may face opposition from President Trump, with whom she has recently clashed over issues including the Epstein files.

Source: Politico

Trump:

I thought Lindsey was gonna be living forever. I said, 'Lindsey, you're gonna live forever.' And he was gonna have a big victory. He was scheduled to win by a lot. He was scheduled.