🇫🇷🇵🇸⚡- BREAKING: France is planning on opening an embassy in the West Bank, and permission for Palestine to open one in Paris.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The IDF just carried out approximately 10 airstrikes in Sana'a, the capital of Ansarullah-controlled Yemen.

Israeli media report the airstrikes targeted senior Houthi leadership.

🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: The E3 have triggered the snapback mechanism, placing sanctions against Iran for violating the JCPOA agreement.

The process will last 30 days before they go into effect, which is ironically just before when Russia assumes Presidency of the United Nations (on the 1st of October).

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡️- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed the re-initiation of snapback sanctions against Iran.

🇱🇧⚡- "The Lebanese Army has begun its largest weapons collection process since the end of the civil war in 1990. The operation includes Palestinian camps south and north of the Litani River," - al-Arabiya, Saudi outlet.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran’s intelligence operations inside Israel drove the success of the Islamic Republic’s missile and drone strikes against the occupying entity in the 12-day war, calling the regime’s intelligence failures a key factor in its defeat," - PressTV, Iranian reformist outlet.

🇺🇳🇮🇷⚡- "The E3 – France, Germany, and the United Kingdom – initiated a process to reimpose UN sanctions on Iran. Snapback sanctions are a direct response to Iran’s continuing defiance of its nuclear commitments. The United States supports the E3’s decision and urges Iran to engage in serious diplomatic negotiations to resolve the nuclear issue," - Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

🇺🇳🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Even after Israel and the U.S. operation against Iran’s nuclear program, Iran hasn’t abandoned its desire to acquire a nuclear weapon. This is why the E3’s move to initiate the return of UN sanctions on Iran is inevitable. It is an important step in the diplomatic campaign to counter the Iranian regime’s nuclear ambitions," - Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli Foreign Minister.

🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡- The Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned the E3's attempt to trigger the snapback mechanism, calling it inconsistent with UN Security Council resolution 2231. The Ministry says the E3 have no 'legal right' to use the mechanism, accusing the E3 of violating the JCPOA as well.

The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has warned that the move will harm Iran-IAEA relations.

🇵🇰🇦🇫 - Afghanistan's Taliban-led government accuses the Pakistani military of carrying out deadly drone strikes.

🇹🇷⚡- Turkish authorities detain Emin Oner, owner of Turkish defense giant Assan Group, and the company's general manager Gurcan Okumus.

They have been accused of affiliation with the Gulen Movement.

🇱🇧🇺🇳⚡- Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam welcomes the UN Security Council's decision to extend UNIFIL's mandate until December 31, 2026. In 2027, UNIFIL will begin a year-long gradual withdrawal from the country.

🇮🇷⚡- Reuters reports Iran has begun destroying evidence of nuclear weapons development.

"Iran has started an urgent operation to clear a site in northern Tehran linked to its nuclear program that was damaged by Israeli airstrikes," - Reuters.

🇮🇷⚡- "Satellite images show significant efforts by Iran to quickly demolish damaged or destroyed buildings, likely to eliminate any compromising nuclear weapons research and development," - Institute for Science and International Security, US-based Think Tank.

🇺🇸🇺🇳⚡️- The White House announces that President Trump will address the United Nations General Assembly meeting on September 23rd, 2025.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- White House officially walks back policy to bring in 600,000 more Chinese students. No word however on existing foreign student numbers.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- "In Syria, there’s PKK and YPG. Right now all three-letter groups hate me, so I stay away from them," - Tom Barrack, US Envoy to Syria.