—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The IRGC Navy struck a container ship 25 Nautical Miles off the coast of Oman – UKMTO

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— This is confirmation of the second ship being targeted today.

Both were Indian vessels that tried to pass the Strait of Hormuz this morning.

Oil tanker was fired upon by gunboats. Container ship targeted with a projectile.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Possible attack against a cruise ship 3 Nautical Miles off the coast of Oman – UKMTO

That would be the third targeted vessel today.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: A U.S. intelligence official briefed on the matter tells Fox News that the Strait of Hormuz is under full IRGC control and ‘effectively closed’ at the moment

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—❗️🇮🇷 Statement by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council:

– On the tenth day of the war, the Americans began sending messages and requests for a ceasefire and negotiations to end the war that they themselves had started.

– On the fortieth day of the war and with the official announcement of the U.S. President accepting Iran’s 10-point plan as the framework for negotiations to end the war, the Islamic Republic of Iran accepted these negotiations in Islamabad with the mediation of Pakistan.

– These negotiations lasted 21 hours without interruption, and the Iranian delegation raised and pursued the demands of the Iranian people with seriousness and initiative and maximum distrust in the United States.

– Despite agreeing to act within the framework of Iran’s 10-point plan, the enemy raised new and excessive demands during the negotiations, which were met with the Iranian delegation’s firm stance and the decision not to compromise on its positions in any way.

– For this reason, the first round of negotiations ended without a clear result, and its continuation was postponed until another time when the enemy stops being excessive and amends its demands in accordance with the realities on the ground.

– In recent days, with the presence of the Pakistani Field Marshal in Tehran as a mediator in the negotiations, new proposals have been raised by the Americans, which the Islamic Republic of Iran is considering and has not yet responded to.

– We announce that the Iranian negotiating team will not compromise, retreat, or tolerate anything, and will defend with all its might the interests and concerns of the Iranian nation.

– One of the preconditions for Iran's acceptance of the temporary ceasefire was the cessation of fire on all fronts, including Lebanon, which the Zionist enemy violated from the very beginning.

– At the insistence of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Zionist regime agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon and it was decided that if the enemy observes the ceasefire on all fronts, the Strait of Hormuz would be temporarily and conditionally opened until the end of the ceasefire period, only for the passage of commercial ships but not military vessels or civilian vessels of the U.S. and Israel, with the control and permission of the Iranian armed forces and through the route determined by Iran.

– Considering that the majority of the equipment of the U.S. military bases in the Persian Gulf region is provided through the Strait of Hormuz, and this is a threat to the national security of Iran and the Persian Gulf region, Iran is determined to exercise supervision and control over traffic through the Strait of Hormuz until the war is permanently ended and a lasting peace is achieved in the entire region.

– This will be implemented by receiving complete information from passing vessels, issuing a certificate of passage in accordance with the announced regulations of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in accordance with war conditions, and paying a passage fee, and on the routes announced by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

– As long as there is a naval blockade, the Islamic Republic of Iran will consider it a violation of the ceasefire and will prevent the conditional and limited opening of the Strait of Hormuz.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘We have very good conversations going on with Iran. It’s working out very well.

They have no navy, they have no air force, they have no leaders, they have nothing’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Reporter: ‘Mr. President, Iran says it has closed the Strait of Hormuz again, is that true?’

Trump: ‘Did they? I don’t think so. I guess we’ll have a bit more information on that by the end of the day’

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—❗️🇮🇷 IRGC Major General Naqdi: ‘It may be that if the war continues, it’ll become a world war’

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Trump calls Iran ‘a little cute’ for closing the Strait of Hormuz again.

Most Iranian media seem to be transitioning to war mode btw.

Preparing public opinion for a resumption of the war.

—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇳 WATCH: The voice message of the Indian ship ‘Sanmar Herald’ to the IRGC Navy

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 WATCH: For the first time, footage has been released of an Iranian hospital being bombed by the American-Zionist alliance during the early days of the war

At 0:37, a nurse can be seen desperately trying to save as many infants as she can carry.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: An Iranian official told CNN that Iran will prioritize ‘ships that pay’ to pass the Strait of Hormuz

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‘You stop being so gay, and we won’t send as many missiles as before’

Honestly good deal

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: President Trump held a closed security briefing today with General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

An informed U.S. intelligence source tells Axios that ‘preparations are being taken’ to return to war with Iran if there is no diplomatic breakthrough by the end of this weekend.

Hebrew Channel 12 also reports that Israel is preparing for a return to fighting in the coming days.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf:

‘We firmly confronted the U.S. efforts to clear our mines in the Strait of Hormuz, and we and considered it a violation of the ceasefire.

During the Islamabad talks, this almost escalated to the point of conflict, but the enemy retreated.

In Islamabad I told the American delegation that if their mine sweepers move even a little forward from its position, we would open fire. They asked for 15 minutes to give the order to return, and they did.’

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—❗️🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: An Israeli soldier was killed in a ‘security incident’ in southern Lebanon about two hours ago

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: According to U.S. intelligence and military estimates, Iran retains about 60% of its missile launchers, and could ‘reclaim’ 70% of its prewar missile arsenal

At the time of the ceasefire, Iran had access to about half its missile launchers, but ~100 systems were dug out from caves and bunkers in the days immediately following the ceasefire, bringing that number back to 60%. – New York Times

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