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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - September 25, 2026, 11 PM Eastern · Israel Today: Ongoing War Report

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Israel Today ongoing war report. I'm Noah Levi.
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  Speaker 1: Iran is awaiting an official United States response to its
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  Speaker 1: proposal aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz and ending
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  Speaker 1: regional hostilities. The diplomatic initiative was raised at the United
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  Speaker 1: Nations General Assembly and transmitted to the Americans via Qatari mediators. However,
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  Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal reported that US President Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: rejected the proposal, with expectations that US military bombing campaigns
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  Speaker 1: could resume after the upcoming mid-term elections. Iranian Foreign Minister
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  Speaker 1: Abbas Arachi had previously suggested that such a deal would
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  Speaker 1: be more beneficial if completed before the election. Arachi indicated
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  Speaker 1: the proposal would trigger a seven-day countdown to reopening the
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  Speaker 1: Strait and a pause in regional fighting, potentially opening the
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  Speaker 1: door for wider talks that could include discussions of Iran's
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  Speaker 1: nuclear programme. Yet a senior Iranian official told Reuters that
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  Speaker 1: Iran would show no flexibility regarding its nuclear programme, including
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  Speaker 1: uranium enrichment, even if the United States were to accept
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  Speaker 1: the peace deal. The Iranian plan also requires the US
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  Speaker 1: to lift its blockade on Iranian ports, release Iran's frozen
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  Speaker 1: funds and waive its oil sanctions. While a US official
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  Speaker 1: described discussions through mediators as positive and constructive, President Trump
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  Speaker 1: is reportedly privately sceptical that Iran would meet his demands,
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  Speaker 1: and has told his staff that a renewed bombing campaign
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  Speaker 1: is likely. Reuters could not immediately confirm the journal report.
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  Speaker 1: The conflict, which began on February 28 with US and
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  Speaker 1: Israeli attacks, has resulted in thousands of casualties and degraded
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  Speaker 1: Iran's conventional forces. Iran and its allies have retaliated regionally,
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  Speaker 1: including drone and missile strikes against Gulf allies and targeting
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  Speaker 1: Saudi interests through Houthi allies in Yemen. At the United
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  Speaker 1: Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused New
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  Speaker 1: York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani of anti-Semitism and ties to Hamas. Mamdani,
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  Speaker 1: an anti-Zionist who had pledged to arrest Netanyahu during his
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  Speaker 1: mayoral campaign, responded sharply, stating Netanyahu used his speech to
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  Speaker 1: repeat baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide of Palestinians
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  Speaker 1: and referencing an international criminal court arrest warrant. Several prominent
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  Speaker 1: New York Jewish Democrats have defended Mehmamdani. Manhattan Borough President
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  Speaker 1: Brad Holman Sigal called Netanyahu's accusations scurrilous and a political ploy,
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  Speaker 1: while City Council Speaker Julie Menin stated that the Prime
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  Speaker 1: Minister's remarks were not helpful at all and can really
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  Speaker 1: incite violence, urging to turn the temperature down. In a
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  Speaker 1: broader context, reports indicate that Israelis may be finally waking
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  Speaker 1: up to significant global image challenges. facing intensified issues on
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  Speaker 1: media and narrative battlefields. For continuing coverage of antisemitism around
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  Speaker 1: the world, listen to Antisemitism Watch from Clockwork Media. Find
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  Speaker 1: it at clockworkmedia.org slash watch. I'm Noah Levi, thank you
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