🇲🇽🇺🇸⚡️– The two U.S. officials killed in the car crash in northern Mexico's Chihuahua State on Sunday have been identified as CIA officers, raising questions about Washington’s role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels, NYT reports.

🇩🇰🇮🇷⚡️ – Danish international shipping company MAERSK says "transit through the Strait should be avoided."

🇰🇵🇷🇺⚡️– A new group of North Korean soldiers arrived two days ago at Sheremétievo Airport, on the outskirts of Moscow, according to images circulated on social media.

🇺🇸⚡️– President Trump: "I would have won the Vietnam War very quickly."

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️– Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar:

"Formal response from Iranian side about confirmation of delegation to attend Islamabad Peace Talks is still awaited.

Ceasefire ends at 4:50 am PST, 22 April. Decision from Iran to attend the talks before the end of two weeks ceasefire is critical.

Pakistan has made sincere efforts to convince the Iranian leadership to participate in the second round of talks and these efforts continue."

🇺🇸🇪🇺⚡️– TRUMP: Europe must get its act together, otherwise "there will be no more Europe."

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️– The U.S. is still in the dark on whether Iran will participate in talks in Islamabad to end the war before the ceasefire expires on Wednesday — Bloomberg.

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️– Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei: "A final decision on participating or not participating in the Pakistan talks has not yet been made.

The reason is not indecisiveness; the reason is contradictory messages, inconsistent behaviors, and unacceptable actions by the American side."

🇺🇸⚡️ – Democrat Congressman Ted Lieu:
"Kash Patel appears to be a raging alcoholic. He lied about the Epstein Investigation.

He should not be FBI director. He should go seek help and treatment."

🇮🇷🇵🇰🇺🇸⚡️BREAKING: Iran has informed mediators that it will send a delegation to Islamabad for talks when the U.S. lifts its blockade on Iranian ports — WSJ.

🇮🇷⚡️– An Iranian ballistic Missile Was Paraded Through the Streets with Chants;

"If negotiations don’t work, your answer is Seyed Majid's missile"

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️– Iran’s ambassador to the UN Amir-Saeid Iravani says that Iran has received signals that U.S. is prepared to remove the naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz.

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️– Commander Mousavi, Aerospace Commander of the IRGC:

"From today onwards, if the enemy makes a mistake, wherever you people say, it will be our target

If the southern neighbors use the enemy's facilities to attack Iran, they must say goodbye to oil production."

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇵🇰⚡️– Tasnim news: "Iran's decision not to attend in Pakistan on Wednesday is final."

🇵🇰🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️– Iranian official to Reuters: "Pakistan's efforts to convince the US to lift the naval blockade and release Iranian ship crew were unsuccessful."

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇦🇪🇸🇦🇯🇴🇮🇶⚡️– CNN reports that Pentagon still does not know how much it will cost to rebuild the bases that Iran attacked

The Pentagon auditor says the cost estimate depends on how we decide to rebuild them or whether to rebuild them at all. Our partners may also take on part of the share of this construction.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- BREAKING: Trump extends the ceasefire, but says the blockade will continue.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️– A regional source and an Israeli official told Axios: "One reason for Trump's decision is that the U.S. and Pakistani mediators have been waiting for Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei to respond to the latest proposal.

Khamenei is expected to give his response on Wednesday. The Iranian negotiators said they are waiting for a green light from the Supreme Leader."