Saeed Ghasseminejad, director of the Iran Prosperity Project, announced in a message that cooperation with Iranian experts is being expanded to plan for the transition period and the rebuilding of Iran.
Two IRGC drones targeted the Komala group's base in Balisan, in Erbil province of Iraq's Kurdistan Region, on the evening of Saturday, 17 October; the attack caused no casualties.
US War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Islamic Republic will soon have to choose between giving up its nuclear program at the negotiating table or facing US military action.
European officials say the Islamic Republic has used small submarines to deliver weapons to the Houthis in Yemen after its usual sea routes were disrupted.
Prince Reza Pahlavi will speak on the Middle East to officers and generals at Belgium's Royal Military Academy on Friday, 6 November, at the invitation of Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken.
Satellite images from 7 October show the tunnel entrances of Pickaxe Mountain near Natanz are still blocked with earth; centrifuges are said to have been moved to the site.
On Saturday, 17 October, after its claim that a supertanker hit a mine, the IRGC Navy declared the Strait of Hormuz "closed"; CENTCOM says the strait remains open.
In a statement, the Assembly of Experts called for strict enforcement of the compulsory hijab law and urged the armed forces to give any US threat a "regret-inducing" response.
Intelligence assessments by Saudi Arabia and its Yemeni allies show that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers in Yemen are directing the targeting of the Houthis' drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations agency said a tanker 78 miles north-east of Saudi Arabia's Jubail in the Persian Gulf was hit by an RPG fired from a small boat.
A ceremony honouring Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi's 88th birthday was held on Tuesday, 14 October, near Les Invalides in Paris, attended by Iranians and a former French ambassador.
On Saturday, 17 October, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed a tanker carrying more than two million barrels of oil hit a mine in the Strait of Hormuz; attacks on ships have reached 12 in one week.
CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper said 400 merchant ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz in seven days and that the US helped its allies export more than 100 million barrels of oil.
At a campaign rally in Georgia, Donald Trump said the US operation against the Islamic Republic will end very soon and called the regime's leaders "crazy".
CENTCOM said the economic pressure of the naval blockade has reached the point where the IRGC is not paying its forces' salaries and proxy groups are sending money back to the IRGC.
CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper said the US naval blockade has stopped at least $25 billion in Islamic Republic oil exports and that $350 million of its cryptocurrency has been frozen.
Ali Falahi, a 46-year-old Iranian-British citizen, admitted at Harrow court in London that the fire beside the memorial wall for the fallen had been aimed at a photo of Prince Reza Pahlavi.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said in Berlin on Friday that Europe is in the Islamic Republic's crosshairs and that Berlin will not tolerate its hostile actions.
A letter from 306 associations opposing the Friedrich Naumann Foundation's decision to entrust the Freedom Prize to Prince Reza Pahlavi has been met by the support of 1,700 doctors and 133 political prisoners.
The navy of the Islamic Republic's army has reported another tanker on fire in the Gulf of Oman, the second similar claim in three days, with no ship named and no independent confirmation.
