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Day: October 27, 2026
🇮🇱 🇮🇷 Israeli jets allegedly crossed into Iranian airspace this weekend… and Tehran held its fire on purpose.
Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, says he was told Iran read the incursion as bait, a push to make Tehran fire first and look like the side that started a war right before Israel’s election and the US midterms:
“They had concluded that the Israelis were trying to goad them into an attack, that this was a trap.”
If Iran had swung at the Gulf, it would have handed Israel the regional bloc it has been chasing for years.
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Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iranian sources say Israeli jets crossed into Iran’s airspace this weekend and Tehran never fired back… because Iran decided the flyover was bait for a war before the midterms
Leaders from Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia sat in Tehran today asking for Iran’s help with the Houthis, and a blast at a radar site in Tabriz on Sunday that Iran says was leftover ordnance being detonated may or may not be connected to any of it.
Trita Parsi, who heard the airspace story from the Iranian side and is still working to confirm it, says Tehran read the whole thing as a setup:
“I think they had concluded that the Israelis were trying to goad them into an attack, that this was a trap.”
Trita says an Iranian strike on the Gulf would have handed Israel the Arab bloc it wants, so Iran sat still, and Israel going no further suggests the read may have been right.
He says Iran won’t push the Houthis off their demand to lift the air blockade even with a reported $1 billion Saudi offer on the table, and Tehran has lost confidence in Pakistan as a mediator, seeing it as passing along American messages.
He still puts a US strike after the midterms at 80 to 90%, and the one thing that could slow it is a clean Eisenkot win, since a new prime minister may not want his name on Netanyahu’s war.
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— https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2114864003478434243
Two Azerbaijani women wrestlers will begin their campaigns today at the World Wrestling Championships in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana.
According to Report, Jala Aliyeva (57 kg) and Birgul Soltanova (65 kg) will take to the mat on the next day of competition.
In addition, three Greco-Roman wrestlers will compete for medals.
Nihat Mammadli (63 kg) will face Armenia’s Karen Aslanyan in the final. Hasrat Jafarov (67 kg) will compete for a bronze medal, although his opponent has yet to be determined. Islam Abbasov (87 kg) will face Latana Sopa of American Samoa in a repechage bout.
The World Championships will conclude on November 1.
Earlier, Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestlers Eldaniz Azizli (55 kg) and Sanan Suleymanov (77 kg) won gold medals.
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