Iran

• BJP leaders criticized Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on September 20, 2026, for featuring a comedian's mimicry of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a student event in Indore. • Former Union Minister Manish Tewari stated that India's development requires a multi-partisan approach to avoid becoming a mirage. • The political clash highlights ongoing tensions between India's major political parties regarding public conduct and governance strategies.

• Iran has conditioned the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz on the United States providing specific concessions. • Washington renewed a broad travel alert for West Asia due to persistent risks of regional escalation. • These tensions create instability for global shipping and maritime access through one of the world's most critical oil transit points.

• President Donald Trump is considering new demands from Iran to end a conflict that has lasted seven months. • Trump returned from Camp David on Saturday before his scheduled address to the General Assembly on Tuesday. • The outcome of these negotiations affects Gulf leaders whose countries have been directly impacted by the war.

• Iran issued a warning of severe retaliation against the United States and its allies after claiming to have intelligence about an impending attack. • Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf stated that the country must continue fighting and negotiating to push back enemies and consolidate gains. • Simultaneous attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saudi Arabia's capital and oil infrastructure increase the risk of regional instability and volatile oil prices.

Tensions grow as Trump tells Fox News he is considering ‘wiping Iran out’ after attacks on Riyadh by Houthi rebelsGovernments across the Middle East are bracing for an escalation of violence after Iran claimed it had received intelligence that the US was preparing for a renewed bombing campaign against the Islamic Republic.In a potential sign of growing tensions before the UN general assembly in New York this week, Donald Trump cut short a weekend visit to the Camp David presidential retreat on Sunday with no official explanation, and a new security alert was issued by the state department to all US citizens in the Middle East. Continue reading...

• Iranian Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf stated that the old United States-led global order has collapsed and called for Islamic nations to implement a new one. • Ghalibaf noted that Tehran's specific messages and conditions regarding this shift were explicitly conveyed to the U.S. through intermediaries. • This stance signals Iran's intent to challenge Western geopolitical dominance and seek a leadership role among Islamic states.

Bridget Phillipson says Burnham’s past criticisms of US president not an issue as PM prepares to meet Trump at UNNext month’s budget will be made more difficult by Donald Trump’s war with Iran, one of Andy Burnham’s cabinet ministers has said, while adding she did not expect the prime minister’s previous disparaging comments about the US president to be an issue.Burnham is expected to meet Trump early next week at the UN general assembly summit in New York, the pair having previously spoken twice by phone since Burnham entered No 10. Continue reading...