- According to The New York Times, Pentagon investigators have polygraphed 50 Joint Staff members over Iran war leaks, including about how the Iran war has created a shortage of crucial munitions.
- US President Donald Trump has again threatened to attack Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain “very soon”, repeating a warning he first issued in mid-July.
- Iran’s air defence commander Brigadier-General Alireza Elhami says that Iran is “ready for any kind of confrontation” now or in the future because “the threat is not over”.
- The US State Department tells Al Jazeera that Washington “does not support any plan” for the expulsion of Palestinians following Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz’s call for depopulating Gaza as the only “solution” to the crisis.
