❗Conflict Overview: Day 249

▪Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Mohsen Rezaei delivered a message from Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic Mojtaba Khamenei to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian state broadcaster reported

▪Ali Akbar Velayati, adviser on international affairs to Iran’s supreme leader, has warned Yerevan that Tehran still sees the creation of Trump’s Route for International Peace and Prosperity as a red line not to be crossed

▪Ending the war with Iran is likely to be a priority for US President Donald Trump following his Republican Party’s defeat at the midterm congressional elections, Tsuneo Watanabe, a senior researcher at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, told a TASS

▪Two supertankers caught fire while passing through the Strait of Hormuz, the press service of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reported

▪Nearly 310,000 people in Yemen have been forced to leave their homes since early August because of fighting, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said

▪The administration of US President Donald Trump displayed arrogance by grossly underestimating the extent of American citizens’ dissatisfaction with the war against Iran and the resulting rise in prices, independent candidate for US President Diane Sare told TASS

▪Hezbollah has denied claims by the Yemeni government that its instructors are allegedly participating in military operations on the side of the Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis)