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ceasefire only made sense if the blockade was lifted. Iran’s **Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps** seized two vessels on Wednesday for what it called maritime violations and escorted them to Iranian shores, according to statements
ceasefire. The Houthi leadership fired missiles towards Jaffa Israel and said Israeli linked commercial shipping would be blocked entering the Red Sea, a decision that will unnerve other shipping.** Iranian officials had earlier suggested
statements about the war. When US negotiators started talking to their Iranian counterparts and Pakistani mediators in the run up to a ceasefire announcement on 8 April, Israel was left out of the loop. Israeli
official said. - **The US Treasury’s** **Scott Bessent said that as a result of the US blockade, “in a matter of days, Kharg Island storage will be full and the fragile Iranian oil wells will
ceasefire”, according to the official IRNA news agency. - **Hours before Iran’s statement, Trump said his negotiators would arrive in Islamabad on Monday evening**. A White House official said the delegation would
statement later corrected by officials. Vance, who led the US delegation in talks earlier this month, has not yet departed Washington and had meetings scheduled for Wednesday morning, a White House official said on Tuesday
ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran announced on April 8, drone attacks targeting the UAE have continued. Last week, Emirati officials accused Iran of launching missiles and drones at the port city of Fujairah
official told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday the group would “not accept a partial ceasefire”. In other developments: - **Oil prices jumped nearly 2%** after the attacks on Kuwait tested the fragile truce. Flights
Iranian military's air defences, a ground control station and two drones that it said "posed a clear threat to ships transiting through regional waters". No American personnel were injured in the attacks, it said
officials over the weekend had likewise signalled both sides were making progress on elements of a peace deal. Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said on Saturday progress did not mean agreements would be reached
Iranian negotiators and “various other countries”. Trump made the announcement after holding a call with the leaders and officials from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt, Turkiye, and Bahrain. He said
officials will “be blown off the face of the earth” if they attack US vessels. Iran has denounced such rhetoric and rejected Trump’s demands as excessive. Mehr, a news agency sponsored by the Iranian
statement](https://www.axios.com/2026/04/16/trump-iran-war-powers-vote-fails-democrats), Golden, who is retiring after his current term, noted there are now intense negotiations between the US and Iran during the two-week ceasefire, and claimed “a resolution like this would
statements. ## What are Iran’s conditions? Al Jazeera’s Atas said, according to Iranian sources, officials are pursuing a “three-phase approach”. In the first phase, lasting 30 days, Tehran wants negotiations focused on permanently
statement carried by the official IRNA news agency, the IRGC claimed it had struck the US military installations in response to the strike on Qeshm Island. “FALSE,” CENTCOM said in a post
statements](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/06/another-day-another-pivot-as-trump-flails-in-an-iran-trap-of-his-own-making), by turns declaring the war is over only to then threaten annihilation, have created diplomatic whiplash. On Thursday Pakistani officials again claimed that the US and Iran were nearing a temporary
official told state media that only nonmilitary vessels would be allowed to transit the strait — and only with permission from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy. Then, Trump went further with his claims
statement as the strikes started: “A short while ago, the Israeli Air Force struck military targets belonging to the Iranian terror regime in western and central Iran.” It did not elaborate. The **White House
statement said. Shortly after the launches began, Mohsen Rezaee, the military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, wrote on X that Iran “repeatedly stated that it will not tolerate violations of the ceasefire and aggression
Iranian crude oil, the Pentagon says. The M/T Tifani was boarded overnight, the US Department of Defense announced on Tuesday. The raid was carried out as a two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran