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Iran’s Rial Slides Past 2.7 Million per Dollar on the Open Market

By Plainly Now News Desk Published October 4, 2026

The reverse of an Iranian 10,000-rial banknote, printed 'Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ten Thousand Rials', with an engraved snow-capped mountain.

Iran’s rial traded at 2.723 million per dollar on the open market on Oct. 4, per Iran International. See the timeline, the bank dollar program and inflation.

House passes third resolution directing Trump to end Iran war; measure won’t bind him

By Plainly Now News Desk Published September 16, 2026 Updated October 4, 2026

Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, in his official congressional portrait, in front of a U.S. flag.

The House voted 220-204 to pass its third Iran war-powers resolution this year, with record crossover of seven Republicans; it cannot reach Trump’s desk.

Iran Says It Captured a US Navy Underwater Drone in the Strait of Hormuz — the Pentagon Says It Had Already Malfunctioned

By Plainly Now News Desk Published September 10, 2026 Updated October 4, 2026

A small, torpedo-shaped autonomous underwater vehicle with a dark nose cone is lifted by crane onto the deck of a vessel at sea under an overcast sky. Photo-illustration, not a photo of the actual incident.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard navy announced on the evening of September 8, 2026, that its forces had taken control of a US-operated underwater vehicle at the entrance