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Iran Is Finding New Ways to Disrupt Middle East Oil – Iran’s attempts to choke off Middle Eastern oil exports aren’t working as well as they once did, but that doesn’t mean Tehran is out of options or that the region’s energy crisis is ending.

In fact, signs suggest the battle over Middle Eastern oil exports may simply be changing, with even bigger, longer-term problems emerging.

New shipping data published on October 5 shows that Middle Eastern crude exports exceeded pre-war levels on September 24 and between September 27 and 29, reaching 19.5 to 22.5 million barrels per day.

Middle East Oil Exports Beat Pre-War Levels – But Nothing’s Guaranteed – Something remarkable is happening in the Middle East, but it shouldn’t be confused with Iran losing control of the Strait of Hormuz. Despite Iran’s continued efforts to disrupt shipping through the water, which include ongoing strikes, crude oil exports from the region are starting to tick up — and they even briefly exceeded pre-war levels during the final week of September.

But several factors suggest the recovery is fragile and could reverse at a moment’s notice.

Oshkosh Defense received a follow-on order of Heavy Equipment Transporter A1 platforms from Optimum Vehicle Logistics for Morocco.

Could President Donald Trump’s decision to go to war in Iran, and the long war that has followed, cost him one or both houses of Congress in the midterm elections next month?

Very possibly. And the president has admitted as much.

President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at the 450th mile of the new border wall Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, near the Texas Mexico border. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

Former President of the United States Donald Trump speaking with attendees at the 2022 Student Action Summit at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida.

The start-up behind the Pentagon’s counter-drone marketplace, Kaizen, picked up a five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinitely-quantity enterprise agreement worth up to $49 million from the Army, with an initial task order in the tens of millions focused on classified work.  
Delivered through the service’s Digital Capabilities Contracting Center of Excellence (DC3oE), the award allows select Army organizations to use Kaizen’s application layer system, one meant to streamline typically clunky military workflow tools.

Japan’s newly designated Type 25 Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectile has been seen operating at Camp Fuji, providing the first ever view of the country’s first domestically developed high-speed glide weapon in frontline service. New video footage shows the missile system arriving at a firing position, raising its launch canisters, and subsequently withdrawing, offering a detailed look at the operational procedures being developed by the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.

With summer nearly over, many Ukrainian farmers have harvested much of their crop. Before Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine was one of the world’s leading exporters of key foodstuffs, including wheat, sunflower seeds and sunflower oil, barley, and other grains. Despite the war, this past summer was productive.

But while the country’s agriculturalists harvested most crops successfully, Ukrainian farmers face a major bottleneck: the closure of Ukraine’s Black Sea port infrastructure, through which most of the country’s food exports must travel.

Some Iranian leadership is being surprisingly honest about the dire state of the country’s economy, with one of the most senior security officials in Tehran warning that the Islamic Republic is going through one of the most difficult periods in its history.

Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, delivered the assessment during a high-level government meeting on Saturday, October 3, attended by President Masoud Pezeshkian and senior ministers.

U.S. Air Force Capt.

The Air Force Falcons emerged as the lone service academy winner in Week 5, defeating the Navy Midshipmen 14-9 in the opening matchup of the 2026 chase for the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy on Saturday afternoon. Later that evening, the Army Black Knights sustained a 31-29 road loss to the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.
All three academies found themselves in tightly contested games, with Air Force holding off Navy after building an early lead and Army mounting a late rally that came up just short in Ruston.

The U.S. and its allies’ recent efforts to move oil through the Strait of Hormuz appear to have hit a key benchmark. However, there are new reports that Iran is stepping up attacks on vessels in the area, indicating that the recovery is fragile and could be reversed.

According to data from the tracking firm Kplr, which Reuters cited, crude oil exports from the Middle East exceeded pre-war levels on four of the seven days in the final week of September.