War: latest news. Abu Mazen postpones Palestinian elections until 11 September 2027. Iran, Pasdaran: ‘Attacks on ships not limited to the Strait of Hormuz’

Iran has preserved its missile and drone production facilities and is able to replenish its stocks of such weapons, according to Western officials quoted by Bloomberg and reported by the Times of Israel. One of the sources also stated that Russia is supplying missiles to the Islamic Republic. The Russian Ministry of Defence did not respond to a request for comment. The same source stated that Iran still possesses anti-ship weapons and large stocks of ballistic missiles, an assessment that contradicts statements by US President Donald Trump and his aides – including Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth – according to whom the United States had destroyed Iran’s “military industrial capacity” and its entire “defence infrastructure”. In a statement reported by Bloomberg, White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly “rejected” this assessment: “Firstly, President Trump razed Iran’s nuclear facilities to the ground during Operation Midnight Hammer,” said Kelly, referring to the US strikes that took place during the 12-day war between Israel and Iran in June 2025. “Subsequently, Operation Epic Fury successfully destroyed the conventional shield that Iran was seeking to build to protect its nuclear programme.”

At least nine people are reported to have been injured as a result of attacks by Israeli settlers and Israeli forces whilst harvesting olives in the village of Deir Abu Mashal, in the Ramallah area of the West Bank. This is according to ‘The Times of Israel’, which reports that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) did not immediately comment. According to the Red Crescent, at least one of the injured was hit in the leg by a live bullet. Others were beaten or struck by rubber bullets. Earlier, Palestinian media had reported that Issam Rimawi, a photojournalist for the Turkish news agency Anadolu, had been hit in the thigh by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli forces in Deir Abu Mashal whilst documenting the olive harvest. According to the same sources, Israeli forces had also used tear gas against the Palestinian olive pickers. Footage released by Palestinian media shows Rimawi on a stretcher being carried into a Red Crescent ambulance. Other footage shows a paramedic treating another young man, who has bleeding wounds to his head and thigh.

An 8-year-old Palestinian girl has been killed in Gaza City by Israeli fire. This was reported by the Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing medical sources. The victim, Shahd Abdul Razzaq al-Najjar, was struck by a bullet fired from an Israeli drone in the al-Jawazat area of Gaza City. Wafa also reports that in Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, a woman was injured by shots fired by Israeli soldiers.

“Those who seek to follow in Alexander’s footsteps will share Valerian’s fate: you will kneel,” declared the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, in response to remarks made by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio had written on X: “We believe that the West can… rekindle the fire that was first lit in ancient Greece millennia ago”, referring to the ancient wars between the Persians and the Greeks. “Throughout history, we Iranians have confronted those who proclaimed themselves masters of the universe and sought to wipe out ancient civilisations. They arrived amid fire and flames, only to depart amid dust and shame,” Ghalibaf emphasised on X.

Given the current geopolitical situation in the Middle East, as well as the escalating conflict in Ukraine, a number of major Italian ports, including Genoa and Ravenna, have been experiencing a decline in traffic, particularly in recent months. In the first six months of the year, the Port of Genoa recorded an average fall of 8 per cent in import and export traffic with the Middle East (9 per cent down for containers and 7 per cent down for petroleum products) and an overall decline in cargo of 1.9 per cent; whilst in Ravenna, in August alone, total cargo handling fell by over 470,000 tonnes (-21.2 per cent) compared with the same month in 2025.

In light of these circumstances – which are also being viewed with concern by those ports that are recording growth – the chairmen of Italy’s major ports are sounding the alarm over the effects of the crisis in the Middle East: if the crisis were to become entrenched, they warn, it could lead to a permanent change (which is, in fact, already taking place on a temporary basis) in shipping routes from the Middle East to Europe, resulting in the marginalisation of the Mediterranean.

The Revolutionary Guards, the Iranian Pasdaran, have announced that they will extend their ‘measures’ against ‘unauthorised’ shipping in the area to the ‘entire Persian Gulf region’, beyond the Strait of Hormuz. No details of the “measures” were given in the statement carried by the Iranian news agency Tasnim.

On several occasions, the Pasdaran have confirmed attacks on ships owned by the “enemy” that were passing through the Strait of Hormuz without following the routes specified by the Iranian authorities. “From now on, measures against ships that breach the regulations will not be limited to the Strait of Hormuz,” they state. “Any ship travelling along unauthorised routes will be pursued throughout the region and will face severe sanctions.” In recent days, attacks have been reported on two cargo ships off the coast of Qatar and another off Fuyaira, in the Gulf of Oman. A short while ago, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have struck a “huge gas tanker, loaded with LPG, the NV Sunshine”, which was “attempting to pass through an illegal route” south of the Strait of Hormuz after UKMTO (United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations) had reported sightings of an “incident” 13 nautical miles west of Al Jazeera, in the United Arab Emirates.