The story: Iran's supreme leader has doubled down on the Islamic Republic’s push for Muslim countries to embargo Israel. Seizing on the Gaza war, Tehran has persisted in its campaign to galvanize anti-Israeli sentiment in the region to isolate Tel Aviv. Meanwhile, on the diplomatic front, Iran is pushing for “political solutions” even as it warns of a regional conflagration potentially being sparked by the Hamas-Israel war.

The coverage: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Nov. 1 called on Muslim countries to sever economic ties with Israel amid the Gaza war.

• Iran’s supreme leader stressed the need for Muslim countries to "push for an immediate end to the bombing of Gaza" and to "cut ways of oil and food exports" to Israel.
  
  
• Khamenei also criticized Britain, France, and the US for aligning with Israel, urging the Islamic world "not to forget" that the...