Iran, CNN: ‘US is considering using the “Mother of All Bombs”’
Meanwhile, Trump reiterates his stance: ‘The war against Iran will end very soon. The moment I want it to, it will end. They will never have nuclear weapons.’
The United States is considering the possibility of using the ‘Mother of All Bombs’ against Iran should President Donald Trump order new attacks against the Islamic Republic either before or after the mid-term elections scheduled for early November. According to several sources who spoke to CNN, the US military has drawn up new plans for attacks on energy and nuclear facilities, which include the option of using the GBU-43/B bomb – the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal, weighing 9.7 tonnes. Its use against Iran for the first time would represent a significant escalation.
Meanwhile, Trump reiterates his stance. “The war against Iran will end very soon. The moment I want it to, it will end. They will never have nuclear weapons,” said the US president, speaking to journalists in Montana shortly before boarding Air Force One at the end of a campaign rally ahead of the upcoming mid-term elections in November 2026.
Meanwhile, US Central Command has announced that on 6 October it destroyed ‘a vessel linked to Iran that was conducting surveillance and targeting US Navy ships in the Gulf of Oman’. According to a post on X by US Central Command, “over the past seven months, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has continued to indiscriminately target thousands of civilian vessels transiting the region’s waters, in addition to US Navy warships. The crew members were brought to safety before the vessel was destroyed, and repatriation procedures are currently underway.”
Yemen: EU-Gulf summit scheduled for Riyadh postponed indefinitely
The second EU–Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit, scheduled for 24 October in Riyadh, has been postponed until a date to be confirmed. This was announced by the Council of the European Union. The decision comes after missiles fired by the Yemeni Houthis repeatedly struck the airport in the Saudi capital.
In Gaza
Meanwhile, in Gaza, one year on from the ceasefire, Israel is continuing its efforts to dismantle Hamas. The IDF reports that the military engineering unit has completed the destruction of an underground tunnel approximately one and a half kilometres long that crossed the Yellow Line in the south of the Gaza Strip.
