1. The Strike Trump Wouldn’t Sign
Per CNN, the Zionist regime had planned a new strike on Iran over the weekend — but Trump did not approve the operation, and Washington is unwilling to give the green light before the November 3 midterms. A second leash: depleted air-defence resources, leaving the entity dependent on additional American support after the previous clashes. Israel Hayom reports heightened military readiness across the occupied territories while Netanyahu vows the regime will strike Iran again “soon” — a threat now visibly subordinated to the American electoral calendar and the empire’s hollow arsenals.
2. The Leader’s Directive: Accelerating Scientific Might
In a statement published today, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei called for accelerated scientific and technological progress in the wake of the recently imposed wars with the US
Emphasising that “a strong Iran is founded upon scientific and technological might,” he directed that the new scientific surge must be “both profound and accelerated”.
The Leader also called on Muslim nations to unite against the US and the Zionist entity, urging regional leaders to recognise their shared responsibilities in the current geopolitical landscape.
3. Lula’s Fourth Dawn: Brazil Rolls Back the Far-Right Tide
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva secured an unprecedented fourth term, crushing Flavio Bolsonaro 51.8% to 48.2% — the first candidate since 1989 to win a runoff after trailing in the first round. Framing the victory as a defence of sovereignty, Lula declared Brazil had “defeated foreign interference through digital platforms” and pledged to regulate the major tech companies. The far-right’s desperation met a swift legal reckoning: Flavio refused to concede, then was ordered by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to surrender his passport and was barred from leaving the country. From Petro (“fascism in Latin America… has been restrained”) to Sanders, Khanna and Mamdani, the Global South and the Western left hailed a historic blow to fascism.
4. Election-Eve Autopsy: From Ben-Gurion to the Ballot Box
Ahead of tomorrow’s October 27 Knesset elections, PW’s analysis traces how Ben-Gurion’s “nation in arms” doctrine has consumed its own architects: military rank as the only political currency, the 1967 turn that made the army the armed wing of the settlement enterprise, and a conscription crisis exposing the settlers’ crumbling social compact. With Eisenkot and Netanyahu trading blame for the Al-Aqsa Flood humiliation, the campaign is laid bare as “a dispute among colonisers over who should bear the burden of the killing” — the polls will only decide which faction steers the occupation into its inevitable decline.
5. Winter Hunger and a $10 Billion Beg: The Siege Economy Reverses
The war’s economic boomerang landed on the aggressors today. France is seeking more Algerian oil and gas as Europe faces winter supply pressures — sovereign Algiers, fresh off its $37.5 billion hydrocarbon windfall, now holds the cards. Meanwhile Bloomberg reports Saudi Aramco is nearing a $10 billion loan with global banks as Yemeni forces’ operations squeeze regional energy markets. UN chief Guterres warned the West Asia conflicts are driving up food and energy prices worldwide — the global bill for the US-Saudi war machine coming due in real time.
6. Qom’s Certainty: Wilayah as the Shield Against Intimidation
In a profound ethics lesson on Imam Sajjad’s (AS) Makarim al-Akhlaq supplication, Grand Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani taught that true greatness of Allah in the heart renders believers immune to the threats of arrogant powers: “One in whose sight God is great does not waver or tremble before worldly threats.” Recounting the companion who calmly recited his own prophesied martyrdom to the tyrant Ziyad ibn Abih, the Marja showed how certainty strips the executioner of his psychological power. His companion piece, “The Fatimi Roadmap: Defending Wilayah,” published the same day, was unreachable at press time due to a host error — title logged for the record.
Also on the wire
UN succession: Press TV profiles seven contenders vying to replace Guterres atop a world body whose authority has been “severely eroded” by its failure to stop wars or hold powerful states accountable.
Tomorrow: The Zionist entity votes in its Knesset elections — the dispatch will carry the fallout.