{"id":847,"date":"2026-11-03T14:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2026-11-03T14:05:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:05:46","slug":"us-strikes-iran-qeshm-island-ahead-of-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"US JUST HIT IRAN&#8217;S QESHM ISLAND ON THE EVE OF THE MIDTERMS! | Officials call it limited and defensive after IRGC fire on a US aircraft \u2014 Hormuz diplomacy still grinding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STRIKES ON THE STRAIT, BALLOTS ON THE WAY! The US has carried out strikes on Iran&#8217;s <strong>Qeshm Island<\/strong> in the Strait of Hormuz, US officials told CBS, the BBC&#8217;s US partner, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx240mrm3g8vo\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Officials described the strikes as <strong>limited and defensive<\/strong>, and said they were in response to Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) firing on a US aircraft. Iranian state news agency Irna reported explosions on Qeshm on Monday. The IRGC did not comment on the strikes but said its forces had shot down two US MQM-170 drones south of the island and a US MQ-9 drone east of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>The US military has not commented. The strikes came as mediators stepped up efforts to prevent a return to all-out war after Tuesday&#8217;s US midterm elections. Earlier Monday, President Trump told Axios he was in <strong>&#8220;no rush&#8221;<\/strong> to ramp up strikes, saying Iran had been &#8220;crippled&#8221; financially. Asked if the US would resume significant strikes after the midterms, he said <strong>&#8220;no&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Tuesday &#8220;the ball is now in America&#8217;s court to prevent war.&#8221; Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said &#8220;very intensive&#8221; talks were under way via Qatari and Pakistani mediators. Qatar&#8217;s Majed al-Ansari said both sides were &#8220;reviewing the ideas and proposals&#8221; and remained committed to negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Iranian negotiators floated reopening Hormuz within two days if Washington met seven conditions, reportedly including lifting a naval blockade of Iranian ports and releasing frozen assets. A fifth of global oil and gas usually passes through the strait.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: AI-generated editorial illustration by Bugle Blast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx240mrm3g8vo\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials call it limited and defensive after IRGC fire on a US aircraft \u2014 Hormuz diplomacy still grinding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/bb-qeshm-strikes-1103.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}