🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iraq’s prime minister is reportedly briefed on a US attack within days and Britain’s leader is on the phone to Trump… while Iran tells Reuters it has full access to the Gulf’s internet cables
Baghdad has reportedly been told it’s coming, London is calling to raise concerns, and the people close to the decision say it’s already made.
What’s left is whether anyone talks Trump out of it.
Tehran’s answer is to widen the target list.
Two Iranian security officials told Reuters the cables running to military bases, including covert ones, would be hit in ways built to block repairs:
“There will be no more red lines.”
Reuters notes under 1% of international bandwidth runs through Hormuz, so the Gulf eats that pain first, and it’s already eating the oil: Iran claims two supertankers were struck today and the UAE closed beaches over a slick, on the same day Washington insisted Gulf exports beat pre war levels.
Israel is opening its own front, with Netanyahu closing Hebron after two soldiers were killed and ordering a full West Bank lockdown prepared, while Hezbollah shows signs of mobilizing and Ron Lauder tells Israelis “you’re losing everything because of stupidity.”
Every leader in the chain is now on the phone with Trump, and the only question left is whether anyone gets through before the aircraft do.
@WeTheBrandon
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 23, 2026