🇺🇸 🇮🇷 ⚡️ - Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, the Pentagon's former top military planner, was fired this week after admitting he leaked classified information about Iran and Ukraine to two reporters over a year, according to an internal investigation report cited by Axios, and was referred to the Justice Department for prosecution.

🇮🇷 💥 ⚡️ - An explosion was heard near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's IRNA news agency reports.

🇮🇷 💥 ⚡️ - Iran's IRNA says several explosions were heard on Qeshm Island coming from the sea, adding that some were warning shots fired at violating ships, while residents reported air defense activity.

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 💥 ⚡️ - US forces have carried out "self-defense strikes" on Iranian missile launchers in coastal southern Iran over the past two weeks, Axios reports.

📋 TODAY'S 5 BIGGEST DEVELOPMENTS - Thu, Oct 29.

1️⃣ 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 - The US bombed missile launchers on Iran's coast for the fifth time this week, with strikes reportedly hitting the Iranian Navy's Jask Naval Base and a missile launch squad on Qeshm Island.

2️⃣ 🇾🇪 🇸🇦 - The Houthis claim six operations deep inside Saudi Arabia, targeting the Ras Tanura, Abqaiq and Rabigh oil sites and Riyadh's King Khalid Airport; the coalition intercepted two missiles over Riyadh, where shrapnel lightly injured a citizen.

3️⃣ 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 - At least ten US military cargo planes landed in Israel in 24 hours, Kan reports, as CENTCOM's Adm. Brad Cooper briefed President Trump on military options against Iran, WSJ reports.

4️⃣ 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 - The IRGC says it took control of a US MQM-170 drone near the Strait of Hormuz and landed it intact; CENTCOM denied the claim.

5️⃣ 🇰🇵 🇰🇷 - North Korea fired about 12 short-range ballistic missiles from the Wonsan area, South Korea's military said.

🚢 TANKER REPORT
💥 A tanker burned and largely sank off Khasab, Oman, reportedly after a suspected projectile hit.
⚠️ UKMTO says another oil tanker was struck by an unknown projectile while sailing out of Hormuz; no injuries.
💣 The IRGC Navy says three "violating" tankers hit mines on an unauthorized route through Hormuz.
❌ No verified passage data through Hormuz today.

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🇮🇷 💥 ⚡️ Unconfirmed - Gunfire and power outages are being reported in Tabriz, Iran; reports say.

🇴🇲 🇮🇷 🚢 🔥 ⚡️ - UKMTO says it received a report of a vessel on fire while transiting out of the Strait of Hormuz, northeast of Khasab, Oman, with the cause of the fire unknown.

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 💥 ⚡️ - A CENTCOM official says the US Air Force struck a missile launcher on Qeshm Island earlier tonight after Iran launched missiles from the area, saying "This is an area we've been watching over the last week, and we were prepared to act in a defensive manner."

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 ⚡️ - Axios' Barak Ravid has deleted his report that US forces carried out "self-defense strikes" on Iranian missile launchers in coastal southern Iran over the past two weeks, reportedly at the request of US officials who are still keeping the operation covert.

🇴🇲 🇮🇷 🚢 💥 ⚡️ - UKMTO says the tanker hit 25NM northeast of Khasab, Oman, was approached by a small boat that attached two explosive devices to its hull above the waterline, causing an engine room fire that temporarily disabled the vessel; the fire is out, the crew is safe and the ship is continuing to its next port.

🇸🇦 🇾🇪 💥 ⚡️ - The Saudi-led coalition says a Houthi drone was intercepted and destroyed over the Makkah region.

🇮🇷🚢💥⚡️ - IRGC Navy says two "violating" oil tankers were hit in the Strait of Hormuz and stopped in its southern waters after switching off their navigation systems and trying to cross an unauthorized route with US military support, adding that fires broke out on both.

🇮🇷🚀⚡️ - A ballistic missile launch was reportedly detected from Isfahan as part of IRGC missile exercises.

🇮🇷🚢💥⚡️ - IRGC releases footage of the two oil tankers it says were stopped in the Strait of Hormuz after an "incident", showing one of them burning with heavy black smoke.

🇮🇷🚀⚡️ - Another ballistic missile launch was reportedly detected from Khuzestan as part of IRGC missile exercises.

🇮🇷🇺🇸💥⚡️ - Iran's Army Navy says its forces destroyed an enemy unmanned surface vessel in the eastern Strait of Hormuz at dawn today, and that the two "violating" tankers caught fire after hitting naval mines.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️ - Asharq Al-Awsat reports that Shin Bet officers have been calling Palestinian militants in Gaza and telling them to leave their families or be struck with them. In one case, Mohammed al-Bayouk was told to leave his family, then killed in a drone strike on the roof of a Khan Younis shelter.

🇮🇷⚡️ - Two columns of smoke were seen rising over Shiraz in Fars Province, amid ongoing IRGC missile exercises.