🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We’ve already seen an increase in traffic today; hopefully, we’ll see an increase in traffic tomorrow. We actually think that we are seeing signs that the straits are starting to reopen." - US Vice-President J.D. Vance in an interview, despite multiple signs showing the Strait of Hormuz isn't open.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇱🇧⚡️- Senior Iranian official Mohsen Rezaee:

"We stand with all our might alongside the Hezbollah mujahideen, and we will punish the Zionist enemy. The responsibility for the collapse of the ceasefire lies with America, which either does not want to or cannot leash its rabid dog. Violations of the ceasefire by America will also not be tolerated."

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇱🇧⚡- "The White House's claim that Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire is an example of reneging on the agreement," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡- BREAKING: Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a phone conversation with his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan earlier today.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Two Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Senior Iranian official Ibrahim Azizi:

"Once again, you have shown that you don't understand the concept of a ceasefire and only fire is what brings you to your senses, so you must wait for it!"

🇺🇸⚡️- FBI Director Kash Patel announced the FBI arrested a former U.S. Special Operations Command employee for leaking classified information to a member of the media.

🇺🇸🇪🇺⚡️- “NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!! President DJT” - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah launches rockets to the border with Israel, targeting IDF positions.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "All U.S. Ships, Aircraft, and Military Personnel, with additional Ammunition, Weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded Enemy, will remain in place in, and around, Iran, until such time as the REAL AGREEMENT reached is fully complied with. If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the “Shootin’ Starts,” bigger, and better, and stronger than anyone has ever seen before. It was agreed, a long time ago, and despite all of the fake rhetoric to the contrary - NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS and, the Strait of Hormuz WILL BE OPEN & SAFE. In the meantime our great Military is Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest. AMERICA IS BACK!" - President Trump via Truth Social.

🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- Iran's Ambassador to Pakistan confirms an Iranian delegation is set to arrive today in Islamabad ahead of tomorrow's peace talks.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Oil companies are unhappy with Trump's peace plan with Iran and are pushing back against it, with discussions held with JD Vance and Marco Rubio, Politico reports.

The companies believe that if Tehran charges $1 per barrel, or $2 million per ship, it would seriously drive global oil prices.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Trump has urged NATO allies to quickly "present concrete plans to ensure navigation and help secure the Strait of Hormuz," Bloomberg reports, citing a senior NATO official.

According to Bloomberg, Trump requested the plans during conversations with NATO's Secretary General Mark Rutte yesterday. The US wants the allies plans within days.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- No energy tanker has so far passed the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the ceasefire. The four vessels that crossed the strait yesterday were carrying dry cargo - Kpler.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "The United States must choose between a ceasefire or allowing Israel to strike Lebanon, they can't have cake and eat it." - Iranian Deputy FM Khatibzadeh tells BBC.

🇮🇷🇵🇰⚡️- The Iranian ambassador to Pakistan has deleted his tweet stating that an Iranian delegation is set to arrive in Islamabad.

🇫🇷🛩⚡️- Air France announce they extend the suspension of their flights to the Middle East until May 3.

🇫🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- French Foreign Minister J-N Barrot calls Israeli strikes on Lebanon "intolerable attacks".

🇬🇧🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The UK Foreign Secretary issued a statement indicating they are "strongly wishing for an extension of the ceasefire to Lebanon".