The Royal Navy will lead efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

A UK–France plan aims to secure merchant shipping, but will require U.S. support.

Source: The Times

The U.S. and regional mediators are exploring high-level peace talks with Iran as soon as Thursday, but are still waiting for Tehran’s response.

Trump wants to wind down the war, though tensions remain high.

Israel is wary Trump could strike a deal that falls short of its goals and limits its military options.

Source: Axios

Even senior Trump officials knew little about outreach to Iran. Witkoff and Kushner reportedly dealt directly with Trump, with few others in the know.

Source: Axios

IDF:

A missile launched from Iran fell in Beirut today.

Israel’s military says Hezbollah now has about 11,000–13,000 missiles, far fewer than before Oct. 7, 2023.

Officials estimate this is roughly one-sixth of its previous arsenal, which had been as high as 75,000.

Source: WSJ

Trump:

You can tell a lot about a person by their ears, right?

Trump on Markwayne Mullin:

As the only Native American—I didn't know that. Huh? Let me look at you. Uhh, I think that's alright.

Trump on Iran:

We are having a tremendous success in Iran.

Trump on Iran:

We are talking to the right people, and they want to make a deal so badly—you have no idea how badly they want to make a deal.

Trump:

The Democrats are thugs.

Trump on Iran:

We are in negotiations with Iran, as it turns out right now.

They are doing it along with Marco, JD, and other people.

The other side wants to make a deal—and who wouldn’t?

Trump on Iran:

Pretty much everything they have is gone. Can you name one thing that is not gone?

If you read the papers, you would think we are tied. We are roaming free over Tehran, and we can do whatever we want.

Trump on Iran:

They have agreed they will never have a nuclear weapon; they have agreed to that.

Trump on Iran:

They shot 100 missiles at USS Abraham Lincoln, and every single one was knocked down on the sea.

Trump on Iran:

We are at, as they would say, war. They call it war; I call it a military operation, a very successful one.

Trump on Iran:

We have really regime changed; this is a change in the regime because the leaders are all very different than the ones we started off with.

Trump on Iran:

They gave us a big present worth a tremendous amount of money; it arrived today.

It was oil and gas related.

We are dealing with the right people.

Trump on Iran:

I think we are going to end it; I can’t tell you for sure.

We have won this war.

Hegseth on Iran:

Never has a modern military been so rapidly and historically obliterated from day one.

Hegseth on Iran:

We negotiate with bombs.

Hegseth on Iran:

This is not Iraq and Afghanistan.