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Trump says the US may “blow up” Iran or strike a deal, insisting the standoff will end very soon one way or the other.

Crude oil flows from the Middle East are returning toward pre-war levels despite continued risks to shipping, according to separate estimates from JPMorgan & Goldman Sachs. Meanwhile the diplomatic stalemate between the US & Iran continues with Hormuz & nuclear weapons being the main sticking points despite mediation efforts from Qatar.  Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi, Associate Fellow MENA at Chatham House spoke to Bloomberg’s Abeer Abu Omar on Horizons Middle East & Africa on the impasse between the two sides. (Source: Bloomberg)

Tokyo, Sept. 28 (Jiji Press)--Japan has exercised its right of reply at the U.N. General Assembly to rebut remarks by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Japan and Germany were on a path of militarization, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said Monday. Lavrov said in a General Assembly speech on Saturday that the U.N. Security Council should not create new seats for the two nati...

The UN General Assembly wraps up with mixed diplomatic outcomes.

EAM Jaishankar told world leaders that a persistent threat to peace has been the scourge of terrorism.

Bloomberg Mideast geoeconomics lead Dina Esfandiary tells Bloomberg This Weekend that a protracted Iran war, marked by cycles of escalation and pauses in fighting, is a key scenario as deep divisions over the Strait of Hormuz complicate diplomacy. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Esfandiary says Gulf Arab states are pressing to avoid further escalation as they seek to limit the economic and security damage from the conflict. (Source: Bloomberg)

Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Yossi Mekelberg, Senior Consulting Fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. Can Israel continue to define its future primarily through security and territorial control? Mekelberg challenges the notion that military operations, incursions and settlement expansion can constitute a sustainable political objective. He identifies a potential transition beyond the Netanyahu era as an opportunity to reconsider the relationship between Israeli and Palestinian societies. His central argument is that the continuation of war without a political endgame risks a state of perpetual conflict.

US and Russia engage in urgent talks to reduce war's impact on global energy during UN General Assembly.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian accused US President Donald Trump of a “bullying mentality” at the United Nations on Wednesday, saying Iran would not surrender in the war with the US but remained open to diplomacy to end the conflict. In a wartime address to the 193-member UN General Assembly, Pezeshkian said threats would only ‌harden Iran’s resolve, rejecting Trump’s warning that he could annihilate Iran if no deal were reached. “The remarks made by the US president yesterday … are a sign...

Government claims battlefield advances as diplomats attempt to put anti-Houthi fight at UN centre stage.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian gave a defiant wartime address at the UN on Wednesday accusing the US of terrorism in his country and saying Iran would not "bend at the knee". But as Pezeshkian called for diplomacy, Iranian officials downplayed their talks with US counterparts on the sidelines of the gerenal assembly as "not anything new".

Tehran ties diplomatic progress to lifting shipping blockades and unfreezing assets during New York negotiations.

President Trump says US officials held a 'very good' meeting on Tuesday with the Iranian delegation at UN.

World leaders head to the UN General Assembly as Gulf states seek renewed diplomacy to reduce attacks, restore more predictable energy flows and move the Iran war away from active conflict. Suzanne Maloney of the Brookings Institution joins David Gura and Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend and says disruptions to Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline and other regional infrastructure are adding urgency to those efforts as Gulf economies face mounting pressure from the conflict. (Source: Bloomberg)

He said all sides must exercise restraint and urgently return to dialogue and diplomacy, as the region was already reeling under prolonged conflict

Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken joined Balance of Power with Joe Mathieu to discuss rapid AI advancement and whether guardrails should be in place. Blinken said, 'If you've got the wizards telling you all ain't right in Oz, listen to them.' He also noted he believes the war involving Iran could end tomorrow with diplomacy. (Source: Bloomberg)

Ukraine’s state railway operator said top Western figures – including former UK prime minister Boris Johnson and ex-CIA director David Petraeus – were at a west Ukrainian railway station just before Russia struck a Warsaw-bound train there. “Shortly before the locomotive was hit at the Ukrainian-Polish border, a diplomatic train was at Yagodyn station,” Ukraine’s rail operator Ukrzaliznytsia said in a statement. “There were, among others, security advisers from several EU member states and...

President Aoun says 'no new negotiations with Israel at the moment'.

Russia resumed strikes on Kyiv late Monday after a three-day pause ordered by President Vladimir Putin expired, Ukraine’s emergency service said. The halt coincided with visits to Moscow and Kyiv by US President Donald Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who were holding talks aimed at ending the war. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.

The External Affairs Minister said attacks on commercial ‌shipping featured ​prominently in his discussions with Ukrainian counterpart