#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 THE UNITED STATES IS SENDING THOUSANDS MORE TROOPS TO THE MIDDLE EAST AS TRUMP SEEKS TO PRESSURE IRAN — WP.

The U.S. is deploying additional troops to the region; the Trump administration is trying to pressure Iran into a deal that could end the conflict, while also considering further strikes or even ground operations if the fragile ceasefire does not hold.

💬 🇹🇷 Turkish President Erdogan:

If there is to be peace in our region, it will be achieved despite this Zionist regime. If stability is to be established in our region, it will again be achieved despite the Israeli government acting with the delusion of the promised lands.

If peace is to come to our blood-soaked geography, it will likewise come despite Israel, which ties its own security to the insecurity of others. Because whenever even the slightest hope for peace emerges, Israel will try every way to sabotage it, as it has done many times before.

As the front of humanity strives to extinguish the fire in our region, the network of massacre will carry more wood to the flames. Of course, while doing this, they will continue to brazenly target countries that raise the voice of peace, especially Türkiye and Spain.

With their hired pens, their media, and the pawns they use as instruments, they will try to silence people of conscience.

But no matter what they do, they will not be able to silence brave hearts, nor will they be able to shackle the hearts that defend truth and justice.

💬 🇹🇷 Turkish President Erdogan:

We will continue to call the oppressor an oppressor, the bandit a bandit, and the murderer a murderer.

💬 🇹🇷 Turkish President Erdogan:

I remind the baby killers who insult me and our country on social media of some truths once again.

The Republic of Türkiye is not an ordinary state. No power can wag a finger at Türkiye or at the President of Türkiye.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump on Iran:

I don’t know how much longer they can survive.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

The Iran war could be settled “almost immediately.”

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

I wrote a letter to Xi. I asked him not to give Iran weapons. He wrote me a letter, and he is saying that he is essentially not doing that.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

Xi is a person who needs oil; we don’t.

💬 🇮🇷 Commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters:

We will not allow any export or import activity in the Gulf and the Sea of Oman if the American blockade continues.

Our armed forces will not allow trade to flow through the Red Sea if the naval blockade continues.

If America continues its naval blockade, this will be considered a prelude to violating the ceasefire.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

You can call it the Strait of Hormuz or the Hormuz Strait.

The only thing you can’t call it is the Trump Strait—they don’t like that idea.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S. and Iran have agreed in to hold talks, but no date or location has been set yet.

- WSJ

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

I ended eight wars. A ninth is coming.

Nobody's ever ended one war. Who's ended one? Nobody.

#️⃣😭 🇺🇸🇮🇷 THE UNITED STATES IS BLOCKADING IRANIAN PORTS, NOT THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, THEREFORE SHIP TRANSITS THROUGH THE STRAIT CANNOT BE CONSIDERED A VIOLATION OF THE BLOCKADE — CNN.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt:

The talks will likely be in the same place as they were last time.

This is important to Trump: the Pakistanis have been incredible mediators, and we appreciate their friendship and their efforts.

They are the only mediator in this negotiation.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent:

We have told countries that if they are buying Iranian oil, or if Iranian money is sitting in their banks, we are now willing to apply secondary sanctions.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt:

The blockade has been fully implemented and is enforced against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports.

This includes all Iranian ports in the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

Our U.S. forces in the region are supporting the freedom of navigation for vessels that are transiting the Strait to and from non-Iranian ports.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt:

Look at how gas prices have decreased over the past year since Trump was in office.

President Trump has built the greatest economy in the world before — he is doing it again.

Of course, we have this short-term disruption, but again, it's for the long-term strategic goal of ensuring that these terrorists cannot possess a nuclear bomb.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷🇺🇸 A military adviser to Mojtaba Khamenei opposes extending the ceasefire.

😮‍💨 🇮🇷 Iran has decided to move its entire education system online starting April 21.

💬 🇧🇷 Brazilian President Lula:

Donald Trump has no right to wake up in the morning and threaten a country.