The Levant Letter

We will be covering the U.S midterms from early voting until the final results are released, minute by minute. 🇺🇸🗳️

🇮🇱 Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Iran is attempting to renew its efforts to acquire a nuclear weapon, stressing that the mission to confront Tehran remains unfinished.

🇮🇶 Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi vowed not to let armed groups keep seizing land and citizens' rights, hours after Iran-backed Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada denied agreeing to surrender its weapons.

🇮🇷 Iran says it has received a US response to its 14-point peace proposal via Pakistan and is now reviewing it, with Washington yet to confirm it replied.

🇮🇱 Reports say the Arab-led Ra'am party will vote for an Eisenkot-led government even without a coalition deal, while the Joint List will not vote for it but will not seek to topple it.

🇸🇦 Witnesses told AFP that an Aramco building in Riyadh's King Abdullah Financial District was damaged in the Houthi missile attack, despite the Saudi-led coalition saying it intercepted the missiles.

🇮🇷 Reports say explosions were heard across southern Iran, including Qeshm Island and the ports of Jask, Sirik and Bandar Abbas, with the cause still unclear.

🇮🇱 Reports that Netanyahu explored the possibility of forming a national unity government, but Eisenkot categorically rejected the proposal. Netanyahu had not offered a rotating premiership but would agree to such an arrangement if negotiations began.

🇮🇱 Eisenkot following his appointment: The time has come to form a national emergency government, and I will do whatever is necessary.

🇮🇱 Joint List chairman Ahmad Tibi said there would be no negotiations with Netanyahu, and that they will give the Eisenkot government a chance.

🇩🇪 German Chancellor Merz says Muslims who reject Germany's historical responsibility for the Holocaust cannot stay in the country.

🇮🇱 Israel's Channel 12: Eizenkot now has 28 days to announce the formation of a government, extendable by 14 days.

🇮🇱 Israeli media: The Israeli president has tasked Gadi Eisenkot with forming a government.

🇮🇱🇺🇸 Israel’s Channel 12 reports that Trump allies have urged Eisenkot to quickly form a government and oust Netanyahu.

🇮🇱 Netanyahu calls for a unity government.

🇮🇱 Netanyahu: An alliance with Arab parties will dismantle the state of Israel.

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's security chief Mohsen Rezaei told President Trump that Washington lost both the war and the election, warning that any new war would bring a devastating response.

🇸🇾🇸🇦🇾🇪 Syria denied reports that it is sending troops to Saudi Arabia and Yemen to fight the Houthis, with a diplomatic source calling the claims baseless, according to the state news agency SANA.

🇸🇾🇸🇦🇾🇪 Thousands of Syrian troops are set to deploy to Saudi Arabia and Yemen to help fight the Houthis, with hundreds already on the ground, Yemeni officials told AFP.

🇮🇷 Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it has moved missile and drone production underground, establishing underground production sites that keep manufacturing running even under bombardment.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 US Central Command is setting up a task force to restrict Iran's movement of advanced weapons and other sanctioned material across its land borders and the Caspian Sea, expanding its months-long naval blockade of the country.