🇮🇷⚡️– Atleast 15-20 vessels (Mostly Chinese, Pakistani, Russian, and Iranian) have crossed the Strait of Hormuz in the last 2 days, using the new shipping corridor approved by Iran and with permission from the IRGC after paying tolls.

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡– WSJ reports that 15 American warships are stationed in the region to support the naval blockade against Iran. CENTCOM claims the blockade covers the entire Iranian coastline.

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️– Trump's plan to blockade the Strait of Hormuz is risky and could harm the US more than Iran.

The plan could harm the global economy and the US more than it pressures Iran — Financial Times.

🇮🇷🇨🇳⚡️– Chinese Defense Ministry:

Chinese ships continue to move in and out of the waters of the Strait of Hormuz. We have trade and energy agreements with Iran, which we will respect and abide by. We expect others not to interfere in our affairs. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and has opened it to us

🇵🇰🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️– Pakistan is working towards arranging a new round of talks between Iran and the United States after the first round ended without a breakthrough.

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️– Trump: "We will visit Cuba after we finish our business with Iran."

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️– Iran's IRGC: "If the war resumes, we will reveal capabilities that the enemy has no idea about. We will reveal combat methods that the enemy will not have a great ability to counter."

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️– Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem:

"It is unjustifiable for the state of Lebanon to be a tool for implementing what Israel wants by pressuring the resistance."

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️– Tanker truckers: "Despite multiple announcements and orders from Trump to block the Strait of Hormuz and prevent ships from entering/exiting Iranian ports, oil tankers are still loading oil in Iran and some are leaving these terminals."

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️– Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem: "We will not surrender and will remain in the field. Anyone who wants to surrender can go it alone."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️– Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qasem to the Lebanese Govt:

"You are truly strange! By God, you do not fight, nor do you let anyone else fight; you do not resist, nor do you let anyone else resist. Go and look at the Israeli enemy everyone there is fighting."

🇮🇷⚡️– Scenes from an Iranian cabinet meeting during the war:

Minister: ‘Mr. President, we’ve just been informed hostile aircrafts entered our airspace’ (on their way to bomb)

Pezeshkian: ‘OK, (no problem). So anyway what were you saying?’

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️– The Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its strike group spotted 200 to 300 kilometers off the coast of Iran, which is completely within the range of Iranian drones and cruise missiles...

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️– Tom Fletcher the new United Nations humanitarian chief says in an interview with Al Jazeera English that; he has never seen devastation on the scale of what he witnessed in Gaza.

He described how UN staff who had been there since the start of the war had to rely on GPS to locate their homes, as there were no remaining landmarks to navigate by.

🇵🇰🇮🇳⚡️– Reporter: The successes Pakistan is achieving—will Pakistan make the decisions for the region in the future?

Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Asif: Decisions are made by the Lord Almighty.

Reporter: The Indians are squirming...

Khawaja Asif: Let them rot in their pits; let them rot. They're mourning.

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️– "For those people that still read The Failing New York Times and, despite the fact that Iran has been totally OBLITERATED, Militarily. and otherwise, you would think that Iran is actually winning or, at the very least, doing quite well - But that's not true. and The New York Times knows that it's FAKE NEWS! When does this Corrupt Media Outlet apologize for their LIES ano horrible actions against me, my supporters, and our Country itself! HAVE THEY NO SHAME? HAVE THEY NO SENSE OF DECENCY?" — President DONALD J. TRUMP

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️– Trump has been waiting for Iran to surrender since he started the war against it, and his excessive optimism is seen by critics as his biggest mistake — Foreign Policy

🇺🇸⚡️– JD Vance: "I think that, in some cases, it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality."

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️– The White House realized that wars in the Middle East are easy to start, but difficult to stop — Foreign Policy

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️– Trump is trying to strangle Iran's lifeline through the blockade of Hormuz, but the Iranians are betting that his political pain will be limited — New York Times

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️– A blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could turn a regional conflict into a global financial shock, which could be more devastating than the fighting itself — Wall Street Journal