⚡️🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷 — The House passed H.Res. 1530 by 214-211 a procedural rule clearing the way for the House to take up the Senate-passed Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 (Senate amendments to H.R. 5334). The vote did not enact sanctions.

Two Democrats, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) and Jared Golden (ME), voted with Republicans; without them the rule would have failed, marking the second time this month they broke with their party on a rules vote. The Senate approved the Graham bill 86-11 in August.

➡️ The House text under consideration would impose mandatory sanctions on Russian officials, oligarchs, banks, state energy projects, and the shadow fleet; raise tariffs on goods from Russia by up to 500%; raise tariffs by up to 100% on goods from the five largest buyers of Russian oil and gas and from leading facilitators of sanctions evasion; extend the Iran Sanctions Act through 2031; and allow the president to waive sanctions or tariffs after certifying to Congress that the waiver is in the U.S. national interest. Gluesenkamp Perez said the vote moved the House closer to cutting off Russian oil revenue, while Golden’s office said he did not want a Senate-passed Ukraine sanctions bill to die on a procedural vote.

➡️ The same rule also makes in order two fraud bills and two resolutions disapproving EPA vessel-emissions rules for California, secondary to the sanctions package. A final House vote on the Senate text is expected September 16; if the House concurs without changes, the bill goes to the president. The House then recesses after Thursday and returns November 9.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇩🇪 — The U.S. military hosted senior military representatives from eight nations at a conference in Germany last week, where participants discussed ways to strengthen security cooperation in the Middle East, a U.S. government official said Tuesday. Further details, including the scope and location of the meeting, were initially unclear — Deutsche Presse-Agentur.

➡️ Axios had earlier reported, citing Israeli sources, that senior military commanders from the United States, Israel and several Arab countries met in Germany to discuss the Iran war and ongoing regional tensions. CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper, who reportedly invited the participants, is said to have insisted that the U.S. military would not withdraw its troops from the Middle East despite Iranian attacks on U.S. bases. Alongside Cooper, the chiefs of staff of Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan and Egypt took part.

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⚡️⚛️🇰🇵 — The IAEA said in an August 28 report that North Korea has built a new uranium enrichment facility at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, identifying a new two-storey building as the site’s second such facility by comparing state media photographs of a June visit by Kim Jong Un with satellite images taken during construction, with gas centrifuge cascades installed on both floors and capacity for up to 28 cascades.

The agency, which has had no inspectors in North Korea since 2009 and relied on satellite imagery and open-source material including North Korean state media photographs, also said there were indications that operations began in January at a uranium enrichment facility in Kangson, near Pyongyang, within an annex constructed in 2024, and that the developments violated UN Security Council resolutions.

➡️ IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said in a statement to the Board of Governors in Vienna:

“The ongoing operation of enrichment facilities at Kangson and Yongbyon and the reported further expansion of the DPRK’s production of weapons-grade nuclear material is a cause for serious concern.”

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — US Vice President JD Vance said in an exclusive interview with The Post that the war with Iran would conclude “right after” the midterms, agreeing with the president, following months of tit-for-tat strikes between Washington and Tehran. He said the Iranian leadership would continue to lose control over the Strait of Hormuz until the election, now that the critical global energy chokepoint has “returned to well over 50% of normal traffic.”

“We can’t predict the future, but I think the president is right to say that this thing will enter a much different phase in a couple of months. He’s also the commander in chief, so he’s the person who determines … when conflicts start and when they stop.”

➡️ He acknowledged impatience among the American people but said the United States is not engaged in aggressive operations, while Iranians occasionally shoot at commercial shipping, usually unsuccessfully. Vance described two phases: the first, now done, was to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, conventional military, and power projection; the second is to ensure Iran cannot rebuild and to maintain global stability in the wake of that — New York Post.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷🇯🇴 — The U.S. military fired up to 70 or more of its high-end air defense interceptors last week when Iran launched a missile attack on Jordan, U.S. and regional officials said, a heavy expenditure that underscores Iran’s improved ability to target U.S. forces and challenge American air defenses — WSJ.

➡️ U.S. forces fired 60 to 70 Patriot interceptors to counter the attack, which consisted of about 20 ballistic missiles, some officials said, and also fired more than a dozen Thaad interceptors, according to one official. The expenditure is about what the U.S. has used in a full week at other times in the war, another official said.

➡️ The nature of the attack made it more difficult to counter: Iran targeted American troops with warheads that separate into more numerous projectiles as they close in on their target. The defenses did not stop everything. While no troops were killed, Iran managed to hit jet fighters and other aircraft at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, one official said.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — The IRGC says it intercepted and destroyed a U.S. MQ-9 drone over Qeshm Island at this morning, marking the 52nd such downing.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 — Operators of attack drones belonging to the Fostok group thwarted an enemy attempt to reinforce its positions and destroy support points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporizhzhia region, — Russian Ministry of Defense.

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦 — A Shahed drone crashed onto a train traveling from Kyiv to Mykolaiv, causing a massive fire, — Ukrainian media.

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🚨🇾🇪🇸🇦 — Statement of the Yemeni Armed Forces:

This week, Saudi warplanes launched more than 450 airstrikes using F-15 and Typhoon fighter jets, which took off from Khamis Mushait and Taif airbases, these airstrikes targeted the governorates of Taiz, Lahj, Al-Jawf, Hajjah, Ma'rib, Sa'dah, and Al-Bayda, resulting in martyrs and wounded of civilian casualties

In the face of this brutal aggression against our country and people, the Yemeni Armed Forces, with Allah's help and grace, were able to shoot down a Saudi F-15 fighter jet while it was conducting hostile operations in support of its military buildup in the skies over Marib Governorate, the fightr jet was downed using a locally manufactured surface-to-air missile.

In a related operation, the Yemeni Armed Forces, with Allah's help, engaged with two Saudi F-15 and Typhoon fighter formations in the skies over Marib Governorate using locally manufactured missiles, these formations were searching for the wreckage of the downed aircraft and, by Allah's grace, were forced to retreat.

The Yemeni Armed Forces will continue to protect our country's airspace and sovereignty from any aggression or violation by all available means, Allah's willing, Yemen's skies will not be violated.

The fabrications and lies propagated by the criminal Saudi regime regarding targeting Mecca cannot deceive anyone, they are the ones who defile it with immorality, debauchery, and the importation of prostitutes, there is no threat whatsoever from Yemen to the holy sites, our operations target their oil facilities and military bases, and are far removed from the holy places.

Sana'a,
Rabi' al-Thani 5, 1448 AH
September 16, 2026 AD

Issued by the Yemeni Armed Forces

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 — The drone pilots of the "Southern" group of forces set fire to an American-made M777 howitzer near Kramatorsk, — Russian Ministry of Defense.

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🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Israeli airstrikes on the outskirts of Halta in Lebanon, — Lebanese media.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 — U.S Vice President JD Vance:

We cannot let our Middle Eastern foreign policy be subservient to the state of Israel.

We're going to work with people when we work with them. We're going to disagree when we disagree.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 — U.S Vice President JD Vance:

Trump has shown a willingness to actually part ways with Netanyahu when he feels like the interests of the American people are different from the interests of the government of Israel.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 — U.S Vice President JD Vance:

And I find it a little ironic Jason that you have Democrats criticizing Donald Trump for his relationship with Bibi when Donald Trump is the one president of the last 40 years who's been willing to say, you know what, yeah, Bibi's a good partner, but also Bibi and I have a different opinion on this, or Bibi's wrong about this, or maybe Bibi's right about this from the perspective of Israel, but the American people need us to go in a different direction.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 — U.S Vice President JD Vance:

Israel has been an important partner when it comes to military technology, when it comes to intelligence sharing, but also sometimes the United States doesn't always agree with Israel.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 — U.S Vice President JD Vance:

If you look at the history of Western governments in the post-war era, they open the border. They invite border invasions, but they never actually reverse it. At best, they slow it down.

I think Trump was the first president in my lifetime to actually reverse that flow of illegal immigration. I'm extremely proud of that.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — U.S Vice President JD Vance:​

Yeah, so, so Jason, I understand that and I certainly hear from people. And what I would say, first of all, is we invite people into the coalition who disagree with us.

You don't have to agree with us on every single issue. But on the war specifically, what I I would say is look, the President came in and, yes, he wanted to keep the United States out of foreign entanglements.

He also said that he was committed to Iran not having a nuclear weapon. And I think that you wanting to keep the United States out of foreign entanglements does not mean that you can never use the military in order to accomplish the American people's objectives.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — U.S Vice President JD Vance on Iran:

If the U.S. effectively says to the Middle East, "you're on your own," it would necessarily mean a worldwide energy crisis so long as Iran continues shooting at shipping.

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⚡️🇬🇧🇵🇸🇮🇱 — UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband on Gaza:

All of us condemn in the strongest terms the murder that Hamas did on October the 7th, but nothing can justify what has unfolded in Gaza since then.

And actually, you know, it’s worth saying since the ceasefire, the so-called ceasefire, 1,200 Palestinians have been killed.

You know, that is not much of a ceasefire.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 — Operators of conventional (FPV) drones wreaked havoc on the enemy. Anything on the ground, whether a robot, vehicle, or shelter with infantry, was completely destroyed. In Krasnolemansky, — Russian Ministry of Defense.

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⚡️🇪🇺🇨🇦 — BREAKING: President of the European Commission, Von Der Leyen to Canadian PM Mark Carney:

I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to be the first associate member of the European Union.

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