The BBC, The Guardian and the Express report that US National Security Advisor John Bolton has warned Iran not to harm the US, its citizens or allies. The BBC reports that Bolton spoke at the United Against Nuclear Iran Summit in New York, where he said the “murderous regime” of the “mullahs in Tehran” would face significant consequences if they continued to “lie, cheat and deceive”. The Guardian reports that Bolton said: “Let my message today be clear: we are watching, and we will come after you.” He added: “If you cross us, our allies, or our partners; if you harm our citizens; if you continue to lie, cheat, and deceive, yes, there will indeed be hell to pay.” Speaking at the UN, Trump blamed Iran’s “corrupt regime”for the humanitarian catastrophe in Syria, and for embezzling billions of dollars of the Iranian people’s money.  The Express reports that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned Iran that the US will respond swiftly and decisively to any Iranian backed attacks on US interests. He said: “The United States will hold the regime in Tehran accountable for any attack that results in injury to our personnel or damage to our facilities.” BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme included a number of interviews about Iran including analysis of President Trump’s UN Speech, Prime Minister Theresa May’s meeting with President Rouhani and an interview with Richard Ratcliffe, husband of Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe and Foreign Office minister Alastair Burt.

The Independent reports that Trump attacked Iran during his speech to the UN General Assembly (UNGA). Trump said of his decision to pull out of the JCPOA nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions: “We cannot allow the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism to possess the planet’s most dangerous weapons.” He added: “We cannot allow a regime that chants ‘death to America’ and that threatens Israel with annihilation, to possess the means to deliver a nuclear warhead to any city on earth. We just can’t do it.” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticised Washington’s hostile policy towards his country, and said the efforts to undermine it were doomed.

The Evening Standard and the Telegraph report that Theresa May and Jeremy Hunt are putting pressure on Iran to release Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. The Evening Standard reports that the Prime Minister told Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday that she had “serious concerns” about the jailing of the 39-year-old. During talks on the fringes of the UNGA, May called for the British-Iranian woman’s release. The Telegraph reports that the talks came hours after Jeremy Hunt met his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif at the UN. “I pressed for swift resolution on all our dual national consular cases, including Nazanin,” he tweeted. “NOT acceptable to detain innocent people arbitrarily at the cost of enormous human anguish.” Hunt has pledged to do everything possible to secure Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release after he became Foreign Secretary.

Reuters and The Guardian report that President Rouhani criticised Washington for its hostility towards Iran. Reuters reports that Rouhani, in a speech to the UNGA, said the US had waged “economic war” against Iran by reimposing unilateral sanctions, which were lifted under the JCPOA nuclear deal in return for Tehran curbing its nuclear programme. “The United States policy vis-à-vis the Islamic Republic of Iran has been wrong from the beginning, and its approach of resisting the wishes of the Iranian people as manifested in numerous elections is doomed to failure,” Rouhani said. The Guardian reports that Rouhani was critical of Trump through the duration of his speech, at one point criticising leaders who “ride public sentiments and gain popular support through the fomenting of extremist nationalism and racism” and through what he called “xenophobic tendencies resembling a Nazi disposition”.

The Independent, Daily Mail and the International Business Times report that Gaza’s economy faces collapse. The Independent reports on the World Bank’s warning that Gaza’s economy is in “free fall” and half the population is living under the poverty line, citing a decade-long blockade by Israel and crippling cuts to funding and aid. The “devastating” report, released on Tuesday, said the finances of the 25-mile long besieged strip were “collapsing”, liquidity had dried up, and plunging aid flows were no longer able to stimulate growth. The Daily Mail reports that the World Bank report will be presented to the international donor group for Palestinians, known as the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, at its meeting in New York on Thursday on the sidelines of the UNGA. The meeting will coincide with the speeches to the assembly of both Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Abbas has been seeking to pressure the Islamist movement Hamas, which expelled his loyalists from the territory in 2007, as well as to save costs over running the strip. According to the World Bank, he has reduced monthly payments to Gaza by some $30m. The International Business Times reports that Gaza’s economy contracted by 6 per cent in the first quarter of 2018. It said unemployment is now over 50 per cent — and over 70 per cent among Gaza’s youth. The World Bank cited various factors, starting with Israel’s decade-long blockade against the territory’s Hamas rulers, for the precarious downturn. It also cited budget cuts by the Palestinian Authority and a reduction in international aid to the Palestinians, particularly from the US. “A combination of war, isolation, and internal rivalries has left Gaza in a crippling economic state and exacerbated the human distress,” said Marina Wes, the World Bank’s director for the region.

The Independent and Reuters report that Israel has warned Russia against sending air defences to Syria. Israel and the US have long lobbied the Russian leader not to provide the S-300 missile system to the Assad regime, whom Russia has backed since intervening in the civil war in 2015. Both countries fear it could hinder Israel’s aerial capability to strike buildups of Iranian forces and Hezbollah, who are also fighting in Syria on President Assad’s behalf. Reuters reports that Netanyahu said Israel would continue its military operations in Syria, despite Russia supplying anti-aircraft systems to Syria. “We will continue to act to prevent Iranian military entrenchment in Syria and we will continue the military coordination between the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) and the Russian army,” Netanyahu told reporters before boarding a flight to New York, where he will address the UNGA.

In an interview with LBC Israeli Labor MP Ayelet Nahmias Verbin told presenter Iain Dale British Jews felt “unsafe” at the prospect of the Labour leader becoming Prime Minister. When asked if she believed Corbyn was antisemitic himself, Verbin replied: “Unfortunately and sadly I believe he is an anti-Semite himself. “He is really not concerned with being balanced when it comes to the Israel-Palestine issue. Maybe he is anti-racist, but he is an anti-Semite.”

In an interview on Channel 4 Jon Snow questioned Jeremy Corbyn on the “gross mishandling” of Labour’s antisemitism crisis and Corbyn’s appearance on Press TV. During the interview Snow showed Corbyn a picture of Jewish MP Luciana Berger being escorted by police into the Labour Party Conference for fears of her own safety. Corbyn replied that Labour is a party that is “open and inclusive and opposed to antisemitism as a totally united party”. Corbyn added that in relation to the IHRA definition of antisemitism that he didn’t want to shut down debate over Israel and Palestine or the rights of Palestinian people. Asked about his appearances on Press TV, Corbyn said : “I severed my connection because of the way they treated the opposition parties in Iran.” Corbyn did not answer Snow’s repeated question of whether he regretted his paid appearances on Press TV.

In an interview with Sky News Faisal Islam questioned Corbyn on antisemitism in the UK. Corbyn replied that “Antisemitism is totally appalling, wrong, and a scourge on our society, as is, as a matter of fact, any other form of racism. I’ve had a lot of things thrown at me over the summer, what I regret is the stuff that’s been thrown at me and the ill-informed nature of it”.

Yedioth Ahronoth, Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom all feature the speech by US President Trump in which he said that we cannot allow a regime that threatens Israel with annihilation to possess nuclear weapons.

Kan Radio News reports that Netanyahu will meet with Trump this afternoon on the sidelines of the UNGA in New York. The talks will centre on Iran, the US peace talks initiative and the crisis between Israel and Russia in wake of the spy plane that was shot down off the Syrian coast. The Prime Minister is also scheduled to meet with several other leaders at the UNGA, including the presidents of Guatemala and Poland and the German chancellor.

The papers continue to report on the frayed relations between Israel and Russia. Haaretz reports that Russia rejected the offer of a delegation from Israel headed by Netanyahu or Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman after the plane was shot down. Yossi Melman in Maariv writes that Russian newspaper Izvestia, claimed yesterday that a plane laden with electronic warfare systems landed at the Russian airport in Syria. According to the report, the systems, which are designed to disrupt the radar systems of planes attacking in Syria, have been delivered as part of the decision to upgrade the electronic warfare capabilities in Syria in the wake of the downing of the Russian spy plane. The report quoted a senior Russian government official as saying that Moscow would send four S-300 anti-aircraft batteries to Syria in the next two weeks, and that the number of batteries might be higher than that. Melman concludes that “the assessment among top Israeli political and security officials is that in the short run, the deployment of the anti-aircraft batteries and the radar-disrupting systems will have an impact on the IAF’s ability to manoeuvre in Syrian airspace. However, the expectation is that once tensions dissipate, coordination between Russia and Israel will be restored. Either way, Israel’s message to Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Russia is that if it discerns a threat or a red line that is being crossed—such as a shipment of weapons—it will act despite the deployment of the advanced weapon systems.”

In Haaretz Yaniv Kubovich writes that “the anti-aircraft missiles are a worrisome upgrade to Assad’s air defences, but their ability to prevent the Israel Air Force from operating is limited” while Amos Harel argues that “the new missile system provided by Russia is not a total barrier to airstrikes, but Israeli jets’ freedom of action will be significantly curbed”.

Israel Hayom reports on ‘Israel’s New Relationship with UNRWA’. Ariel Kahane reports that Israel has formally revised its position on UNRWA, following in the Trump administration’s footsteps. Kahane reports that the Israeli Foreign Ministry has drafted a new document that repudiates the formal UNRWA refugee count and advocates that the aid that is currently being given to “fake” Palestinian refugees be redirected to refugees around the world who meet the UNHCR definition. The Israeli Foreign Ministry position paper also lambasts UNRWA for its role in what the document describes as “incitement” against Israel and for its alleged ties with Hamas.

Kan Radio News and Haaretz report that Opposition Chairwoman Tzipi Livni met Palestinian Authority President Abbas in New York and warned him that unilateral steps against Israel were liable to cause the situation on the ground to deteriorate and might scuttle the two-state solution. Livni called on Abbas to help resolve the crisis in Gaza and instead of attacking the US and dwelling on his feelings of anger and insult, to return to a dialogue with the US.

Maariv reports that Mossad Director Yossi Cohen and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir attended a conference in New York yesterday against Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. The Mossad director addressed the conference as did Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir and United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the US Yousef Al Otaiba. Saudi Foreign Minister Jubeir said that Iran was sowing destruction and death across the Middle East. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the former CIA director, and National Security Adviser John Bolton were also in attendance.

Haaretz reports that land was given to the Mitzpe Kramim Outpost months after it was known that it was built on private land that belonged to Palestinians.

Kan Radio News reports that about 1,000 Palestinian youths rioted on the Gaza border last night in a number of locations, throwing explosive charges and hand grenades, setting off firecrackers and lighting tyres on fire. No soldiers were hurt. Arab media outlets reported that a number of demonstrators were injured by IDF fire and that one person was in serious condition.