🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — A strike, presumably American, was conducted against a missile launcher of unknown type in Sirik, Iran.

🇺🇸⛽️ The U.S. is tapping into the Emergency Reserve in a last ditch attempt to lower fuel prices for consumers

The U.S. plans to loan 1/3 of the reserve or 315k barrels worth of heating oil, similar in chemical structure to diesel, to replace diesel that is used for heating.

The one and only time the U.S. used the Emergency Reserve was back in 2012 during Hurricane Sandy. The emergency stockpile is held at sites ​in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine.

The difference today being obviously that the U.S. East Coast was not hit by a hurricane. The 315k barrels of heating oil the Trump Admin plans to release will barely leave a dent as it is estimated that just the East Coast alone consumes 1 million barrels/day.

Soaring heating oil costs have emerged as a key issue ahead of the November 3 midterm elections, including in several tight Senate races, as Trump's fellow Republicans are trying to maintain control of the two ​chambers of Congress.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-aims-loan-about-third-heating-oil-reserve-bid-tame-prices-2026-10-21/

🇮🇷⚔️🇮🇱🇺🇸 An Iranian senior security official in Tehran told Fars that Iran has instructed its various operational units that, should another round of large-scale war occur, including a wave of assassinations targeting officials and the killing of civilians, Iran will consider political targets associated with the US and other participants in the war, as well as their infrastructure, legitimate targets.

A senior security official in Tehran stated: Iran assumes that the U.S. and Israel will attack, and considers U.S. diplomatic gestures to be lacking credibility. This perception has intensified, especially after Rubio's speech in Athens, which gave a historical and cultural justification to the U.S.'s conflict with Iran.

Iranian leaders and political and intellectual elites have reached an unprecedented consensus that U.S. policy in the Middle East is dictated by Tel Aviv, and that Israel will not allow the U.S. to pursue any diplomatic solution, because for Trump, Israel comes first.

Iran already sees itself at war with the U.S., and considers the U.S.'s economic, naval, and air restrictions to be a continuation of military aggression that began on March 1st. Consequently, there is significant pressure from various segments of the population for decisive action to break the siege, based on the principle of self-defense.

🔗 https://t.iss.one/farsna/469911

🇹🇷🇸🇴❌🇸🇴 — The Turkish Air Force struck positions belonging to the pro-Laftagareen Darwish force across the Bay district of the Southwest state of Somalia, killing 5 combatants.

Ongoing reports also claim Somalian federal forces deployed heavy reinforcements in the city of Baidoa in preparation for an upcoming new offensive by pro-Laftagareen forces against the city.

🇸🇴📝 — TABZ WIKI: The Somalian constitutional crisis.

Aside from the ongoing war against the Al-Qaeda-linked group Al Shabaab, the Somalian federal state is facing another crisis opposing it against its federal subject.

The constitutional crisis, as it is called, started in 2024 following an attempt by Somalian president Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud and the parliament to strengthen the federal government authority over the semi-autonomous region of Somalia by pushing for constitutional reform.

The planned reform was opposed by the regional state of Puntland and his president, Said Abdullahi Deni, and the crisis escalated further following an attempt by the federal government to stop Puntland and Ethiopia cooperation, prompting Puntland to sever ties with the federal government and become de facto independent.

The crisis then spread toward the state of Jubaland following a failed attempt by the federal government to stop the reelection of regional president Ahmed Madobe, resulting in a military clash.

As a result, in 2025 the Somali Future Council (SFC) was formed by the two rebellious regional states as political coalitions against the federal state, which would then receive the Southwestern state of Somalia under regional president Laftagareen as a new member in 2026, triggering a federal intervention against Laftagareen and ousting him from power.

📝 TDLR: The current conflict is between two visions for Somalia, one with the federal government as the central authority and one with regional actors maintaining their political and military authority, with SFC members actively trying to push federal forces out of their respective regions.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: The U.S. and Israel have developed detailed plans for renewed strikes against Iran following the November 3 midterm elections, according to NYT.

The proposed operation could involve an intensive three-day campaign targeting Iran's nuclear facilities, missile and drone arsenal, and potentially energy infrastructure.

Potential targets include Iran's deeply buried Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility.

Some officials believe another offensive could cripple Iran's economy and force concessions on its nuclear program and control of the Strait of Hormuz, although negotiations have so far made little progress.