Day 225 of the WarSaturday, October 10, 2026
Day 225 — IRGC Says a Supertanker Hit a Sea Mine Leaving Hormuz; Kremlin Says Putin Relayed Tehran's Ideas to Trump; Bloomberg Says Russia Is Supplying Missiles
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IRGC Commandos and 50 Army Units Deployed to Iran's Western Borders; Interior Minister Orders a Probe Into a Police Official's Killing in Zahedan
Iran- As Trump declined on Friday to rule out war before the U.S. elections, the IRGC Ground Forces said they had sent commandos to the western borders and the Army Ground Forces commander said 50 combat and support units were deployed there — a sign Tehran sees war as inevitable, per Iran International.source
- Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni ordered a delegation to Sistan and Baluchestan to 'examine the dimensions of this crime' after provincial police deputy Nasrat Eftekhari was killed by a roadside bomb in Zahedan, and demanded that the perpetrators be identified and punished, per RadioFarda.source
- Assembly of Experts member Mohsen Araki rebuked Executive Vice President Mohammad Jafar Ghaempanah for attending a Saudi embassy celebration in Tehran, saying one cannot back the oppressed while staying silent on Saudi 'oppression' of Yemenis, per Iran International, citing Mehr.source
Sociologist Mostafa Mehraeen Jailed Over Letters to Khamenei; Photojournalist Majid Saeedi Held Incommunicado for a Month; Death Sentence Reported for a Mountaineer From Bam
Iran- Sociologist Mostafa Mehraeen, a former assistant professor, was arrested and taken to prison to serve his sentence over open letters urging Ali Khamenei to step down, his Instagram page said Saturday; five of his eight years are enforceable, per RadioFarda, with HRANA confirming.source
- A month after news photographer Majid Saeedi was detained in Tehran on September 9, no authority has said why he is held, by whom or where, his relatives say; he has heart problems and needs medication, and the press photographers' guild has called for his release, per RadioFarda.source
- LiveIranNews warned that Ali-Sina Mostafavi, a 37-year-old nature guide, mountaineer and musician from Bam, Kerman province, was sentenced to death by a Revolutionary Court after reportedly being tortured into a forced confession; agents also detained his relatives to add pressure.source
- LiveIranNews said political prisoner Mahshad Keshani, 22, has been harshly interrogated in Isfahan's Dowlatabad Prison to make her deny marrying Alireza Sepahi, executed a day after their prison wedding; an informed source said she has been cut off and both families pressured.source
IRGC Navy Says a Supertanker Leaving Hormuz by an 'Unauthorized Route' Hit a Sea Mine and Exploded
Gulf & Naval- The IRGC Navy said a supertanker carrying crude oil that tried to leave the Strait of Hormuz by an 'unauthorized route' suffered a severe explosion after striking a 'sea mine,' adding that the ship had switched off its navigation and positioning systems, per Iran International.source
- The IRGC statement warned that 'a massive fire is the inevitable fate of any violating tanker that seeks to ignore the security and rules of the Strait of Hormuz,' per Iran International; Open Source Intel also reported that a crude-laden supertanker struck a naval mine on its way out of the strait.source
- Earlier, LiveIranNews relayed CENTCOM's statement that the main shipping lanes in Hormuz had been cleared of sea mines and declared open to vessels that do not violate U.S. maritime sanctions on Iran, adding that thousands of commercial ships had since passed in complete safety.source
Kremlin Says Putin Relayed Tehran's Ideas for Ending the War to Trump, Who Warns Iran Will Accept U.S. Demands or 'No Longer Exist'
Global- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that after two meetings with Pezeshkian in Turkmenistan, Putin, 'in coordination with the Iranian president,' passed Tehran's view on a possible end to the war to Trump, giving no details of its content or of Trump's reaction, per Iran International.source
- At a New York campaign rally on Friday evening, Trump said he expects to soon 'resolve or win' the war with Iran, threatening that it will either accept Washington's demands or 'no longer exist'; hours earlier he had not ruled out another strike before the midterms, per RadioFarda.source
- Trump also said Washington has kept Iran from nuclear weapons but Tehran will likely try harder to harm America before the elections, claimed it has no navy, air force, air defense or effective radar left, and said the U.S. is weighing renaming Hormuz the 'Trump Strait,' per Iran International.source
Bloomberg Says Russia Is Supplying Missiles to Iran; WSJ Traces $67 Million From a Zanjani-Linked Network to IRGC Wallets
Global- Bloomberg, citing a Western official, reported that Russia is supplying missiles to Iran, echoing an earlier June report that Tehran had likely added newly built Russian weapons to its arsenal and rebuilt much of its missile capability during the eight-week ceasefire, per Iran International.source
- Western officials told Bloomberg that despite U.S. and Israeli strikes Iran has kept its missile and drone factories and can rebuild its arsenal, and still holds significant stocks of ballistic missiles and some anti-ship weapons that it can rapidly expand, per Iran International.source
- The Wall Street Journal, citing an internal Binance document, reported that a network linked to the U.S.-sanctioned Babak Zanjani moved at least $67 million through Binance accounts to digital wallets that Israel's Defense Ministry had identified as linked to the IRGC, per RadioFarda.source
- Binance's report for the UAE's financial intelligence unit found that the account of Zedcex, a crypto firm tied to the network, was repeatedly accessed from Tehran; Binance said it shut the accounts and that equating their volume with IRGC funds is 'fundamentally misleading,' per RadioFarda.source