🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- UKMTO issues an advisory warning that all Iranian ports and access to the country's coast has been restricted.

"Neutral vessels within Iranian ports have been granted a limited grace period to depart," - UKMTO.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The US Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has now begun.

"The blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. CENTCOM forces will not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports." - U.S. Central Command.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇸🇦⚡- "There is no solution other than land entry into Iran - but a governmental alternative must be established.

There is no solution other than a ground military entry by the US into Iran and a repeat of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003.

But this time we need to find a successful, acceptable, and secular alternative government on the Iranian street. It would be better if it wasn't Reza Pahlavi.

There is no other solution. They should treat this like the Saddam Hussein regime, and recreate the Bush administration's experience.

The war has not achieved its results, and Iran is continuing with its nuclear program, and has even become more aggressive towards us, towards you [Israel], and towards the US and its interests in the region and the world," - A Saudi Royal tells Israeli Channel 12.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media reports that 8 IDF soliders were wounded by a Hezbollah drone in southern Lebanon. 2 of them are in moderate condition, and the other 6 are in mild condition.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Iran’s Navy is laying at the bottom of the sea, completely obliterated - 158 ships. What we have not hit are their small number of, what they call, “fast attack ships,” because we did not consider them much of a threat. Warning: If any of these shipsa come anywhere close to our BLOCKADE, they will be immediately ELIMINATED, using the same system of kill that we use against the drug dealers on boats at Sea. It is quick and brutal. P.S. 98.2% of Drugs coming into the U.S. by Ocean or Sea have STOPPED! Thank you for your attention to this matter," - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇺🇸⚡- “A federal judge dismissed President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch on Monday over a story on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.” - Associated Press.

🇩🇿 - Footage displaying the aftermath of the suicide attacks.

The attacker(s) targeted a “security directorate,” which killed two police officers and injured numerous civilians, according to the Daily Express.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- The Wall Street Journal reports 15 US vessels are currently enforcing the blockade of Iran.

🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️- The IDF announces they have struck 150 Hezbollah targets in the past 24 hours.

🇺🇸🇻🇦 - The post has been deleted.

🇲🇾⚡- Malaysia's Coast Guard seized two tankers for carrying out illegal ship-to-ship oil transfers in the Malacca Strait.

The Malacca Strait is a well-known hotspot for ship-to-ship transfers, especially involving Russian and Iranian crude oil. In February, Malaysian authorities detained two tankers linked to Iran for such activities.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem said the group outright rejects direct talks between the Lebanese and the Israeli governments.

The Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors to the US are set to meet in Washington tomorrow, the first direct talks between the two countries since 1983.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- Russia's Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov says Moscow is still ready to accept Iran's enriched uranium.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- CBS reports the US and Iran are still in contact through mediators following the failed Islamabad talks.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is considering a second round of talks with Iran before the expiration of the two-week ceasefire - CNN.

🇺🇸🇻🇦⚡️- Despite President Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV, treating the Vicar of Christ like a routine political rival, a March 2026 NBC News poll of Americans shows Leo at 42% favorable, 8% unfavorable (+34). Trump stands at 41% favorable, 53% unfavorable (–12). A recent Gallup poll also ranks Leo as the most popular public figure in the world.

🇺🇸🇧🇷⚡- ICE has arrested the former Brazilian intelligence chief Alexandre Ramagem after fleeing Brazil due to his conviction for the failed coup d’etat with former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇾🇪⚡- "Aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is operating off the coast of Namibia, as it sails around the African continent and is set to join a growing naval force in the Arabian Sea amid a U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

Bush did not sail through the Strait of Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean Sea, a typical transit for East Coast-based carriers headed to the Middle East. The carrier is instead sailing around Africa.

The path around Africa allows the carrier and its escorts to avoid transiting the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb, which were both hubs of activity for Ansarullah in their drone and missile attacks on U.S. and commercial shipping in 2024 and 2025," - US Naval Institute.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "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 and horrible actions against me, my supporters, and our Country itself! HAVE THEY NO SHAME? HAVE THEY NO SENSE OF DECENCY?" - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The United States has 16 warships in the CENTCOM area of responsibility, but a U.S. official says none of them are in the Persian Gulf, making it more difficult to block Iranian ports, all of which are located along the Persian Gulf coastline, according to AP.

🇺🇸⚡️- Eric Swalwell has resigned from Congress