Trump-Kyiv friction over energy strikes surfaces as diesel prices climb worldwide.

CBS News and Bloomberg reported Trump publicly urging Zelensky to halt strikes on Russian diesel refineries, tying Ukraine's deep-strike campaign to a global diesel squeeze even as Washington keeps arming Kyiv.

Kyiv frames refinery strikes as legitimately choking the revenue that funds Russia's war.

Ukrinform and Kyiv Post reported Ukraine's Defense Forces confirming strikes on refineries in Krasnodar (Slavyansk-EKO) and Tatarstan (Nizhnekamsk), presenting the deep-strike campaign as a lawful effort to degrade Russia's fuel output and war financing.

Treasury targets proxy-financing facilitators across four countries amid the tanker war and the Saudi pipeline attack.

The Times of Israel's Sept 11 coverage reported the US imposing sanctions on facilitation networks in Iraq, the UAE, Lebanon and Turkey backing Kataib Hezbollah and other Iran-aligned groups, framing the measures as pressure on Tehran's regional financing amid the escalation.

Washington casts the sanctions as disrupting the money and materiel that let Iran's proxies attack shipping and US partners.

US officials framed the designations as part of the 'maximum pressure' campaign, arguing that cutting off cross-border facilitators degrades Kataib Hezbollah and other groups' ability to strike Gulf energy infrastructure and US-linked targets.

With talks deferred and the strait still shut, the geopolitical risk premium stays bid.

CNN and Gulf News reported Oman postponing the GCC-Iran meeting on reopening Hormuz 'in the interests of consensus,' with oil prices rising on supply fears and no new date set as the proposed shipping arrangement stalled.

Bahrain's boycott and the Qeshm strike show Gulf states and Tehran still cannot agree terms.

Al Jazeera detailed why Bahrain declined to attend and what was behind the meeting, framing the postponement as evidence the Gulf-Iran divide over conditions to reopen the strait remains too wide to bridge.

Iranian framing: reopening is conditional on Washington lifting the blockade, not on Oman.

Iranian state media relayed FM Araghchi's insistence that an agreement with Oman 'would in no way mean the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz,' tying any reopening to the US honoring the June understanding and lifting its naval blockade.

Iranian defiance meets Indian appeals for mediation.

CNBC and NPR reported Pezeshkian's declaration that Tehran will not surrender to the US and Israel, delivered as BRICS leaders gathered in New Delhi under the shadow of the Iran and Ukraine wars and sought a joint declaration.

Western outlets frame the summit as overshadowed by the Iran and Ukraine wars and BRICS divisions.

Al Jazeera reported that Putin and Pezeshkian arrived in India for a BRICS summit clouded by the two wars, casting the gathering as a test of the bloc's cohesion amid pressure from Washington.

Indian coverage highlights warm Modi-Pezeshkian optics and New Delhi's balancing act.

The Tribune and Telangana Today reported Pezeshkian's arrival in Delhi and his 'won't surrender to oppression' remarks, emphasizing India's outreach to Iran and Modi's call to resolve the conflict through dialogue while protecting seafarers.

The bloc's first collective position on the war signals unusual consensus despite deep internal divisions.

Nikkei Asia and Bloomberg reported that Modi forged a bloc-wide declaration urging restraint in the Iran war, with Iran, Russia, China, India and the UAE all present, casting it as a test of BRICS cohesion after ministers had failed to agree a joint statement earlier.

Western/Gulf coverage stresses the summit was overshadowed by the wars and questions the declaration's practical weight.

Ireland's RTÉ reported BRICS adopting the 'restraint' declaration amid the Iran and Ukraine wars, while The National reported the summit closing Sept 13 with a broad push for peace and cooperation, both noting the bloc's divisions and the limited leverage such statements carry over the combatants.

Host India frames the declaration as a Global South-led push for de-escalation that Western capitals could not deliver.

Outlook India detailed how New Delhi navigated the competing interests of Iran, Russia, China and the Gulf to land the 'Delhi Declaration,' presenting the consensus as evidence of India's convening power and a Global South preference for negotiated de-escalation over great-power confrontation.

Riyadh is left exposed on two chokepoints as Washington limits itself to support roles.

CBS News and Axios reported that MBS pressed Trump — reportedly in two calls — to strike the Houthis after their Red Sea advances, but Trump declined direct US action, offering intelligence and targeting help rather than airstrikes.

Critical read: Trump lets Saudi Arabia fend for itself as the Houthis throttle Red Sea oil.

Haaretz argued Trump is leaving Saudi Arabia to fend for itself as the Houthis disrupt Red Sea oil flows, portraying Washington's reluctance as a strategic gap that exposes Gulf partners at a moment of maximum chokepoint pressure.