Iran
Tehran marked the embassy anniversary. No new strike is in this note.
AP, Wednesday: government supporters stood on U.S. and Israeli flags outside the former embassy. A diplomat called the midterm result a significant shift. Monday’s Qeshm strikes stay in Tuesday’s note.
The Rocket News · World War Desk · TehranNovember 4, 2026 · 3 min read
TEHRAN — The Associated Press photographed government supporters on Wednesday standing on U.S. and Israeli flags outside the former U.S. embassy. Wednesday is the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of that embassy. Vahid Salemi made the picture. No one in the frame is named.
On the AP’s election live page, Mojtaba Ferdousi Pour, head of Iran’s diplomatic mission in Cairo, said the Trump administration had sought to change Iran’s leadership through war and instead saw a “significant shift” at home. This desk does not print a toll. It does not print a new strike. The Qeshm strikes a U.S. official described as defensive were Monday, and they are already in Tuesday’s note. This is not that note.
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The United States struck Qeshm. Officials call the strikes defensive.
Reuters, Monday night: a U.S. official said the strikes on Qeshm Island were limited and not a return to major combat. Another called them defensive. CENTCOM did not answer. The photograph is a social-media still of a flash, not a named target.
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