[The final version of today’s Iran war post should be up by 7:45 AM EDT, so please return or refresh his page then]

Today’s Iran war update is comparatively short due to the current low level of kinetic action as the Israel elections start and the US midterms are now a week away But the press is also following the fallout (from the big money vantage) of the Lula win in Brazil, European protests, and the Anthropic IPO and other “AI funding versus the clock” stories, and skipping over not only Iran/Saudi-Ansar Allah conflict developments, but also the sharp escalation of Israel ethnic cleansing on the West Back, particularly in Hebron.

We’ll briefly turn to the West Bank horrors before turning to a potentially fundamental shift in Middle East politics, that of key states closely or at least somewhat allied with the US exploring a regional security alliance with Iran.…