Iran Set to Unveil Hypersonic Ballistic Missile "Capable of Evading All Defenses."
According to Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, the IRGC’s Aerospace Division commander, Iran is preparing to reveal a domestically developed hypersonic ballistic missile shortly. Hajizadeh claimed that “this advanced missile can evade all air defense missile systems and effectively target the enemy’s anti-missile systems. With a high velocity reaching approximately 12-13 times the speed of sound (Mach 12-13), the missile can maneuver both within and outside the Earth’s atmosphere”.
Qatar hardened its legal line on Iran on September 12 while keeping Palestine at the center of its message. In a statement to the IAEA Board of Governors in Vienna, Doha condemned renewed Iranian attacks on Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the UAE, assigned Iran full legal responsibility, condemned Houthi strikes on Saudi targets and commercial shipping, and in the same intervention rejected forced displacement from Gaza and reaffirmed the two-state framework. The prime minister told Jordan's foreign minister that Qatar backs a solution guaranteeing freedom of navigation, and Reuters reports that the September 14 Salalah meeting is not expected to produce a signed Hormuz accord, with Oman rejecting Iran's demand for transit fees. Early on September 13 a vessel was struck by an unidentified projectile in the strait, and no new Qatar-linked LNG transit was confirmed. In Washington, the Brandeis Center wrote to Qatar's ambassador demanding a complete public accounting of Qatari funding to U.S. universities ahead of the September 25 Section 117 release, while CNN confirmed a Doha event with Media City Qatar for October 29. A summary of the Qatar Watch daily review for September 13, 2026.
The two-strait map is now the organizing idea of the Iranian press, and the intelligence picture supports the leverage claim, not the control claim. Ansar Allah holds Mokha and, by four Yemeni government accounts, has reached Perim Island in the middle of Bab al-Mandab. It bans Saudi hulls, claims 73 transits in two days, and announced a missile and drone salvo on the Sharurah base after Saudi aircraft flew 129 strikes in 48 hours by its count. Sixteen of nineteen Tehran titles carry the strait on page one, and Kayhan's senior columnist declares that the Resistance Front has moved from defense to offense. Hezbollah, the front's founding member, is the one component not fighting. Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline is confirmed shut after a drone strike launched from Iraq, Baghdad has dismissed the Maysan commanders, and Riyadh asked Washington for strikes and was offered intelligence. UKMTO logged a projectile strike on a vessel in Hormuz early Sunday, a day before the Oman meeting, and a senior Iranian official says Monday will produce no signed deal. Inside Iran, an IRGC raid in Saravan killed five militants and three guardsmen, the Central Bank referred 271 cases and 300 trillion tomans to the courts, the free-market dollar sits 45 percent above the negotiated rate, and the factional fight has moved into Ebrahim Raisi's legacy. We assess with moderate confidence that the past 24 hours strengthened Tehran's attrition thesis through the map, not the battlefield. A summary of our daily intelligence report on the U.S.-Israel-Iran war, Hormuz, and the Axis of Resistance for September 13, 2026.
The lead judgment of this cycle is that the settlement track crossed from convening to commitment, and that Tehran published the commitment's limits in Persian on the same morning it published the commitment in English. Iran Daily gives its banner to 'Pezeshkain says Iran, Oman to ink Hormuz…