China FM: We support Iran-Gulf states dialogue, urge efforts to reopen Hormuz

🔹Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, meeting with Iran's FM Abbas Araghchi in Beijing, called on all parties to take effective measures to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

🔹"We support dialogue based on mutual respect for sovereignty and security between Iran and Persian Gulf countries," Wang Yi said.

🔹He also expressed hope that regional tensions would not further expand toward Yemen and the Red Sea.

Yemen: We targeted Aramco and Khamis Mushait base

🔹Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesman for Yemen's Armed Forces, announced that Yemeni forces targeted Aramco facilities in Yanbu with dozens of missiles and drones, and Khamis Mushait Air Base with a ballistic missile.

IRGC spox: Hollywood-style narratives cannot change battlefield realities

🔹IRGC Spokesman Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi dismissed US media accounts of a pilot rescue in Iran as "Hollywood-style narratives," saying America repeatedly resorts to cinematic stories to compensate for its defeats.

🔹"Since the war began, the US president has repeatedly won in his imagination and on social media," Mohebbi said, adding that Americans piece together footage from unrelated incidents to fabricate such scenes.

🔹He noted that alongside the rescue account, images showed pieces of a targeted F-15 being collected in a wheelbarrow.

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Ali Al-Taher: Why Netanyahu needed a closure

Israel's weeks-long focus on Ali al-Taher Hill served as a distraction from its devastation of Mansoury and other southern Lebanese towns, analysts say. Netanyahu declared "operational control" on September 3, then blasted the hill on September 10—a manufactured victory to boost his election standing against Gadi Eisenkot, and to justify pulling back to a 3 km occupied zone.

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/530060/Ali-Al-Taher-why-Netanyahu-needed-a-closure

SNSC chief: People's 200-night epic will endure in history

🔹SNSC Secretary Major General Mohsen Rezaei, marking the 200th consecutive day of public demonstrations, said these nights were "a historic opportunity to heal wounds from two centuries of Iran's memory."

🔹"A nation that once witnessed occupation showed this time it will not allow that history to repeat," he said.

🔹Rezaei stressed Iran's greatest security asset is a people who, in moments of danger, think of nothing but the homeland.

🔹"On this 200th day, we bow in respect before the Iranian nation," he concluded.

Iranian journalists discuss ties between cinema, city in Tehran gathering

Marking Iran's Cinema Day, journalists gathered at Tehran's City Journalists' House to explore the relationship between film, the city, and society. They shared experiences covering cinema, discussed urban management's role in supporting film production, and highlighted journalists' role as intermediaries between filmmakers, authorities, and the public.

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/530036/Iranian-journalists-discuss-ties-between-cinema-city-in-Tehran

Yemen downs advanced Saudi Wing Loong II drone over Marib

🔹Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced that air defenses destroyed a Saudi reconnaissance and armed drone over Marib province.

🔹The unmanned aircraft, identified as Wing Loong II, was conducting hostile operations when it was targeted by Yemeni air defenses.