30 October 2026

Government of Pakistan: Pakistan's military spokesman Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said Pakistan was cautiously optimistic about its mediation between Iran and the United States and that army chief Asim Munir had visited Tehran twice this month.

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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC Navy said it destroyed an American unmanned surface vessel in the eastern part of the Strait of Hormuz.

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Government of Bahrain: Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, opening the IISS Manama Dialogue, said freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab was tied to global stability.

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Government of the United Arab Emirates: The UAE said no new oil leaks from the tanker Gem No. 2 had been detected; The Times of Israel liveblog credited the environment ministry with saying the leak had been stopped, and Gulf News credited the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure with saying no new leaks had been detected.

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Government of Yemen (internationally recognised, Presidential Leadership Council): Colonel Majed al-Nazili, spokesman for Yemen's government armed forces, said Houthi ballistic missiles targeted Aden International Airport and the Maashiq presidential palace, and said this contradicted Houthi claims of lifting the siege; the government statement called it the sixth attack of its kind during the month.

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United Nations: UN Secretary-General's spokesman Stephane Dujarric said more than 290,000 people had been displaced in Yemen since early August, including about 6,100 pregnant women, and that about 65,000 refugees and asylum seekers faced rapid deterioration.

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Hezbollah: Hezbollah said the explosives seized by the Lebanese authorities were its own and were meant for use against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, asked for their return and the release of two detainees, and called the charges unjust.

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UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO): UKMTO said shipping through the Strait of Hormuz was about 70 percent below pre-war levels and that October had the most incidents of the war, with 144 recorded since 28 February.

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United States Armed Forces: Admiral Brad Cooper, the CENTCOM commander, said in a video released on 30 October that he had flown over the Strait of Hormuz and seen no IRGC forces, and that Gulf partners had exported over 1.5 billion barrels since the summer. Fox News's account of the video also had him saying the primary transit routes had been cleared of Iranian sea mines; VOA's account carried no mines statement, and Radio Farda reported the mines claim as a separate CENTCOM statement of 28 October.

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Government of the United States: President Trump said on KCMO radio that the war with Iran was going to get wrapped up soon and that the United States needed a guarantee that there would never be a nuclear weapon.

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United States Armed Forces: US Central Command said the IRGC claim that it destroyed a US military sea drone in the Strait of Hormuz was false and that all US unmanned surface vessels in the Middle East were accounted for.

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Government of Yemen (internationally recognised, Presidential Leadership Council): Yemen's foreign ministry asked the UN Security Council for deterrent measures over the attacks on Aden airport and asked the UN to halt Houthi mine-laying and expand mine clearance.

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Government of the United States: President Trump told reporters that Iran wanted to talk, that the United States had time, that Iran was not paying its soldiers or police, and that the United States was spending relatively little.

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Government of Germany: Germany's foreign office said most G20 members agreed that Iran must come to the negotiating table.

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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC Navy said tankers exploded and caught fire after hitting mines on 30 October; the relays differ on the count. Al Jazeera reported the IRGC as saying two tankers, each carrying over two million barrels, exploded and caught fire after hitting mines; AP reported Iran as saying four tankers caught fire after striking mines, one of them a supertanker carrying over two million barrels; Radio Farda reported one IRGC statement of four tankers, one carrying two million barrels.

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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: The IRGC Navy said two tankers using routes it called unauthorised, with their navigation systems off and ignoring radio warnings, were halted in waters south of the Strait of Hormuz, one in the east and one in the west, after incidents, and said the fires were caused by US actions.

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Islamic Republic of Iran Army: Iran's navy said it struck and destroyed an unmanned enemy craft to the east of the Strait of Hormuz.

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Saudi-led coalition in Yemen: Saudi-led coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki said coalition air defences intercepted and destroyed a drone launched by the Houthis toward the Mecca region, and the coalition later said it intercepted a drone launched toward Riyadh and a Houthi ballistic missile launched toward the southern region and destroyed a Houthi drone over the Medina region.

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Ansar Allah (the Houthis): Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said Houthi forces had carried out no operation toward the Saudi depth that day, called the accusation of targeting the Mecca region false, and said Houthi forces target only oil facilities and military bases; the spokesman later also denied the coalition's claim of a drone over the Medina region.

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