Adm. Brad Cooper, the Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), has once again arrived in Israel for meetings with Israeli Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and other senior military officials, following so far unsuccessful peace talks with Iran, and the expiration of the current ceasefire on April 21, 2026. While meeting today, Cooper and Zamir were joined by Holocaust survivor Bella Haim in commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has issued a summary of the first 24 hours of the naval blockade of Iran. No ships have made it past the blockade, and 6 ships voluntarily complied with the direction to turn around. 12+ warships and 10,000 personnel are among the hundreds of assets from all branches of the U.S. military that are supporting the effort against Iran.

Reports of several explosions in the last few hours near the Parchin Military Complex to the east of Tehran, Iran.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump tells Fox News that the Iran War is over.

Three people were lightly injured and multiple buildings and cars damaged when a pair of improvised liquified-gas bombs exploded earlier tonight near a security forces checkpoint on Imam Khomeini Street in the District 10 of Tehran, according to the Iranian state-run Fars News Agency.

Two Iranian crude oil tankers attempting to depart the Port of Chabahar on the Gulf of Oman were intercepted by a U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer earlier today, who ordered the tankers to turn around and return to port via radio communication channels, officials tell Reuters.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump spoke about ending the Iran War in a currently unreleased interview filmed Tuesday with Fox News.

Trump: “I had to divert because if I didn't do that, right now, you would have Iran with a nuclear weapon. And if they had a nuclear weapon, you would be calling everybody over there, sir. And you don't want to do that.”

Interviewer: “Well, you keep saying was, is this war over?”

Trump: “I think it's close to over. Yeah. I mean, I view it as very close to over. You know what? If I pulled up stakes right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild that country. And we're not finished. We'll see what happens. I think they want to make a deal very badly.”

Analysts and traders on Polymarket predict that it is unlikely U.S. President Donald J. Trump will decide to end his blockade on the coastal areas of Iran anytime soon, with chances that the blockade on the Strait of Hormuz is lifted by the end of April at only 35%, down 15% since it began on Monday.

In a statement from Adm. Brad Cooper, the Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), he states that the blockade of Iranian ports “has been fully implemented as U.S. forces maintain maritime superiority in the Middle East.” Cooper adds that since the blockade begin on Monday, roughly 36 hours ago, “U.S. forces have completely halted economic trade going into and out of Iran by sea.”

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill Tuesday to rename State Road 80, a nearly 125-mile stretch of coast-to-coast state highway which runs from Lee County to Palm Beach County in Southern Florida, as President Donald J. Trump Highway, set to take effect July 1, 2026.

During an interview today with ABC News, U.S. President Donald J. Trump stated that he doesn’t believe there will be a need to extend the current ceasefire with Iran, telling Jonathan Karl that a peace deal is coming, “I think you’re going to be watching an amazing two days ahead. I really do.”

The U.S. Navy has intercepted a total of eight crude oil tankers attempting to enter or leave Iranian ports since the start of the blockade on Monday, in all cases, American forces contacted the crew by radio communications and instructed them to reverse course, with all of the tankers having complied thus no boarding was deemed necessary, U.S. officials tell the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump continues his complaining about NATO in a late night post on TruthSocial, stating: “NATO wasn’t there for us, and they won’t be there for us in the future! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

Iran secretly used a ‌Chinese spy satellite during the recent war that gave its military new capability to target U.S. military bases across the ‌Middle ⁠East, sources tell the ⁠Financial Times.