The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed a container ship carrying more than 2,500 containers hit a sea mine south of the Strait of Hormuz and sank; the fate of its crew is unclear.
In a message on the birthday of Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi, Prince Reza Pahlavi called his mother "a maternal presence" for generations of Iranians and wished for her to see a free Iran.
Mohammad-Mahdi Shahriari, a member of the Majlis National Security Committee, said the Islamic Republic may lease 100 hectares of Chabahar port land to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan for two to five years.
At least one officer was killed and three others wounded on the morning of Wednesday, 14 October, in an attack by armed men on a military vehicle in Mehrestan county, Sistan and Baluchestan.
On Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi's 88th birthday, Prince Reza Pahlavi's media office spoke of her guardianship of the Pahlavi legacy and her steadfastness through the years away from the homeland.
At a campaign rally in Alaska on Tuesday, 13 October, Donald Trump said the Islamic Republic will never get a nuclear weapon and warned that America's patience has run out.
Two senior Islamic Republic officials say Tehran is using new tactics against ships in the Strait of Hormuz to keep oil prices high and influence the US election.
Compatriots inside Iran have asked in messages that Iranians turn out in large numbers in Frankfurt on 7 November and be the voice of the people inside; "our weapon is the Lion and Sun flag."
Saeed Ghasseminejad, director of the Iran Prosperity Project, said at the Düsseldorf conference that Prince Reza Pahlavi's transition plan provides for at least four elections.
At the London spy trial, the prosecution presented Mostafa Sepahvand's messages with a contact named "Navid Embassy" and a promise of £150,000 for identifying journalists.
In a call with Donald Trump last week, Benjamin Netanyahu discussed a new joint operation against the Islamic Republic's nuclear and military facilities before Israel's election.
On Tuesday, 13 October, the Islamic Republic's foreign ministry summoned British ambassador Hugo Shorter after the accusation that the IRGC directed the plot against the Fairford base.
Ali Azmayi, an IRGC naval commander, threatened on Tuesday, 13 October, to sink US warships if they approach the Strait of Hormuz.
Esmail Qaani has appointed Mojtaba Haqlesan commander of the IRGC Quds Force's Unit 840, responsible for assassinating opponents abroad, and the unit has been renamed "Unit 600".
Donald Trump said on Tuesday, 13 October, that the United States will soon decide on the Islamic Republic; the same day the army's navy reported a tanker on fire east of the Strait of Hormuz.
Esmail Kowsari, a member of parliament's National Security Committee, said that under the "anti-infiltration" bill, citizens must notify the authorities before leaving the country.
Haalvsh said more than 20 Fatemiyoun fighters were killed or wounded in a seven-hour clash in Taftan, Sistan and Baluchestan; the response came with mortars and drones.
At least six people were killed in two armed clashes on Tuesday, 13 October, in Zahedan and Chah-Ahmad in Taftan, Sistan and Baluchestan, according to the IRGC; a drone was also used.
At a campaign rally in Ohio, Donald Trump said the US may have gone too far in targeting the Islamic Republic's leaders, because it no longer knows who it is dealing with.
Mohammad-Amin Aghamiri, head of the National Center for Cyberspace, said on Tuesday 13 October that systems to detect and cut off Starlink are ready and were used in the December–January uprising.
