Earth Changes · Oct 26, 2026World War 3 Watch: Israel’s Eisenkot praises Trump strikes on Iran, warns of nuclear threat

World War 3 Watch · October 26, 2026, 3:21 AM CDT

Key Facts

• Israel’s Eisenkot praises Trump strikes on Iran, warns of nuclear threat (via Iran International)^[1]
• Trump rules out Iran strike Sunday as tensions mount across Middle East (via Ynetnews)^[2]
• Tehran warns of nuclear options and infrastructure strikes if US attacks Iran (via The Jerusalem Post)^[3]

Places mentioned: Baghdad, Bahrain, Beirut, Britain, Dubai, East Jerusalem, Egypt, Eyal Zamir, France, Gadi Eisenkot’s
Organizations/groups mentioned: AP, Al-Sudais, Amjadian, Arab, Arab News, Asian, CENTCOM, CNN, Combating Antisemitism Ministry, Control Center for Combating Antisemitism

Where These Stories Happened

Tehran, Iran

The pin marks Tehran as named in the report, not an exact address. Map data: OpenStreetMap contributors. Street photo: Alireza Javaheri, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.

Israel’s Eisenkot praises Trump strikes on Iran, warns of nuclear threat

Former Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot praised US President Donald Trump’s decision to launch strikes against Iran alongside Israel and warned that Tehran was seeking to develop nuclear weapons, in an interview with the New York Post. Eisenkot, a leading challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of Israel’s parliamentary elections on Tuesday, said he supported Trump’s approach of achieving peace through military strength.^[1]

Separately, Ynetnews reported:

Trump rules out Iran strike Sunday as tensions mount across Middle East

U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that the United States would not launch an attack on Iran that day, even as tensions between Washington and Tehran continued to simmer, American military forces maintained a heightened presence in the Strait of Hormuz and the State Department ordered some embassy personnel to leave Saudi Arabia. “There will be no attack on Iran today,” Trump told reporters, offering a temporary assurance amid mounting concerns about another round of fighting.^[2]

Watch what was reported:

U.S. Central Command, an official account, on X (October 23, 2026): “U.S. Marines launch F-35C stealth fighter jets from a base in the Middle East during routine flight operations.”

Middle East Spectator, an aggregator account, not independently verified, on Telegram (October 23, 2026): “— ❗️ 🏴 / 🇯🇴 / ☦️ NEW: Several people were killed and wounded in a horrible terrorist attack against an Orthodox church in Karak Governorate, Jordan The two gunm.”

Elsewhere, The Jerusalem Post added:

Tehran warns of nuclear options and infrastructure strikes if US attacks Iran

Tehran is threatening to respond to a renewed US and Israeli air campaign with strikes on an expanded list of targets, including civilian infrastructure, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The warnings, issued publicly and over diplomatic communications, said that Iran would attack not only American bases and warships, but also natural energy infrastructure, natural gas pipelines, airports, and other civilian targets in the Persian Gulf region.^[3]

CNN also reported:

US has plans for major Iran strikes if Trump chooses

US forces in the Middle East are prepared to launch new, potentially major, military operations against Iran “within 96 hours of receiving” an order from President Donald Trump, according to two US officials. Sufficient forces are now deployed in the region to carry out the potential attacks, the sources said.^[4]

In a related development, Arabnews noted:

Coalition destroys Houthi missile launchers in Sanaa after foiled attack on Riyadh

– Home – Saudi Arabia – Coalition destroys Houthi missile launchers in Sanaa after foiled attack on Riyadh Coalition destroys Houthi missile launchers in Sanaa after foiled attack on Riyadh – A missile launched toward Riyadh was intercepted and destroyed, following a Civil Defense alert issued to residents – Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki stated that operations are ongoing to dismantle the Houthi militia’s missile network RIYADH: The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said on Monday it had destroyed two ballistic missile launchers in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, including one used to fire a missile toward Riyadh that Saudi air defenses intercepted.^[5]

Watch what was reported:

DW News, a news organization, on YouTube (October 25, 2026): “Saudi Arabia, Houthis trade attacks after deadly strikes | DW News.”

References

1. Iran International. Israel’s Eisenkot praises Trump strikes on Iran, warns of nuclear threat. ↩
2. Ynetnews. Trump rules out Iran strike Sunday as tensions mount across Middle East. ↩
3. The Jerusalem Post. Tehran warns of nuclear options and infrastructure strikes if US attacks Iran. ↩
4. CNN. US has plans for major Iran strikes if Trump chooses. ↩
5. Arabnews. Coalition destroys Houthi missile launchers in Sanaa after foiled attack on Riyadh. ↩

Investigative methodology: this update was produced by scripts/ww3_monitor.py, a keyword-and-entity
heuristic (see scripts/significance.py) — not a language model. It quotes and links each source verbatim
and does not add analysis or interpretation.

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