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<article data-history-node-id="449175" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-security-chief-accuses-trump-smuggling-oil-through-hormuz" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-security-chief-accuses-trump-smuggling-oil-through-hormuz" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Iran security chief accuses Trump of ‘smuggling’ oil through Hormuz</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Iran’s security chief claimed on Sunday that US President Donald Trump's adminitation hired “thugs” in the coastal waters of Oman to smuggle oil through the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.</p> <p>Trump “claims every day that the Strait of Hormuz is open, but in response I say: ‘You are smuggling, but the strait is under Iranian control and we manage it,'” Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei was quoted as saying&nbsp;by Iran's ISNA news agency.</p> <p>Rezaei said that the smuggling operation involves the UAE military and the commander of US Central Command (Centcom), using a handful of “small vessels to transfer oil to larger tankers” and that Iran targets them “every night”.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="449110" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahus-former-aide-alleges-attempt-alter-7-october-records" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahus-former-aide-alleges-attempt-alter-7-october-records" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Netanyahu’s former aide alleges attempt to alter 7 October records</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli&nbsp;Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing renewed criticism over the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack and subsequent captive negotiations, Israeli media have&nbsp;reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>Netanyahu's former military secretary has accused him of prioritising his political survival over attempts to secure the captives' release.</p> <p>Avi Gil, who served as Netanyahu's military secretary at the time of the attack and held the post until 2024, made the allegations in interviews with Israel's Channel 12 and daily Israel Hayom.&nbsp;</p> <p>Gil said Netanyahu had abandoned possible opportunities to secure the captives' return because an agreement threatened his governing coalition.</p> <p>Some of those people later died in captivity.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/netanyahus-former-aide-alleges-attempt-alter-7-october-records">Netanyahu’s former aide alleges attempt to alter 7 October records</a></h3> <section> <figure class="image"><img alt="Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a state memorial ceremony marking the third anniversary of the October 7 attack at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, 5 October 2026 (Debbie Hill/Pool/AFP)" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/crop_16_9/public/images-story/Israeli%20Prime%20Minister%20Benjamin%20Netanyahu%20attends%20a%20state%20memorial%20ceremony%20marking%20the%20third%20anniversary%20of%20the%20October%207%20attack%20at%20Mount%20Herzl%20military%20cemetery%20in%20Jerusalem%2C%205%20October%202026%20%28Debbie%20Hill%20AFP%29.jpg.jpg?itok=8kjEStBM"> <figcaption>Benjamin Netanyahu attends a memorial ceremony marking the third anniversary of the October 7 attack, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, 5 October 2026 (Debbie Hill/Pool/AFP)</figcaption> </figure> </section> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="449069" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/flydubai-co-pilot-plotted-911-style-suicide-attack-tel-aviv-airport-uae" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/flydubai-co-pilot-plotted-911-style-suicide-attack-tel-aviv-airport-uae" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Flydubai co-pilot plotted 9/11-style attack on Tel Aviv airport, UAE prosecutor says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>An Omani flydubai co-pilot had planned to seize a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight and crash it into a terminal at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport on 30 September in a suicide attack before being thwarted by his fellow pilot, the UAE attorney general said on Friday, according to the state news agency WAM.</p> <p>UAE public prosecutors believe the plan was inspired by the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States.</p> <p>Their investigation, launched on 1 October, found the suspect had used two previous flights to Tel Aviv to “familiarise himself with the flight route and the airport,” WAM reported.</p> <p>The co-pilot told investigators he acted alone, the attorney general said, adding that he had met all security requirements.</p> <p>The suspect had previously worked for several airlines in different countries, including Oman Air and Royal Air Maroc, before joining flydubai in January 2026.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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