Vice President of the United States, JD Vance:

● If Iran wants to let this negotiation fall apart over Lebanon, which has nothing to do with them, that is ultimately their choice. We think that would be dumb, but it’s their choice.

● JD Vance on the Strait of Hormuz:

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. I think you guys have probably seen oil prices have come down. So, I think the oil markets, the gas markets, are seeing the same thing. But the president’s been very clear: the deal is a ceasefire, a negotiation. That’s what we give, and what they give is that the straits are going to be reopened. If we don’t see that happening, the president is not going to abide by our terms if the Iranians are not abiding by their terms.

● The Israelis have actually offered to check themselves a little bit in Lebanon because they want to make sure that our negotiation is successful. That's not because that is part of the ceasefire. I think that's the Israelis trying to set us up for success.

● The Iranians have got to take the next step, or Trump has a lot of options to go back to the war.

●Trump has talked about sanctions relief. He has also talked about economic partnerships and things like that. But that’s not going to happen unless the Iranians make a firm commitment to stop anything close to the development of a nuclear weapon.

● Reporter: Is the threat to wipe Iranian civilization off the map still on the table? Is it fair to keep 90 million Iranians under that threat for the actions of their leaders?

JD Vance: The leadership is really to blame for the condition of the country of Iran.

●If they break their end of the bargain, they’re going to face serious consequences.

● I actually wonder how good he is at understanding English, because there are things that he said that frankly did not make sense in the context of the negotiations we had.

● JD Vance on Lebanon:

I think the situation with Lebanon is a reasonable misunderstanding. Neither we nor the Israelis said that Lebanon was going to be part of the ceasefire.

● Ghalibaf talked about an attack that had allegedly happened on Iran and how that was a violation of the ceasefire. Ceasefires are always messy. An hour after the president announced the ceasefire, the Iranians launched a bunch of missiles. Then the Israelis responded, then some of the Gulf Arab states responded. This is the nature of a ceasefire. No ceasefire ever goes without a little bit of choppiness.

●The first 10-point proposal was something that was submitted, and we frankly think it was probably written by ChatGPT. It immediately went into the garbage and was rejected.

There was a second 10-point proposal that was much more reasonable. It was based on some back-and-forth between us and the Pakistanis. That is the proposal the president was referencing, and it’s true as of yesterday.

And then, frankly, I’ve seen a third 10-point proposal that’s even more maximalist than the first one that’s been floating around various social media channels.

Lebanese Ministry of Health issued a toll of 182 dead and 890 injured in an initial count, after the Israeli airstrikes carried out today across the country.

In Israel, the wave of airstrikes was given the internal codename “Eternal Darkness.”

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.

US President Donald Trump demands Iran begin complying with the "real" ceasefire agreement or the "'shootin' starts," adding that the U.S. military is "loading up and resting, looking forward, actually, to its next conquest."

Iran's ambassador to Pakistan, Reza Amiri Moghadam:

The Iranian delegation will arrive in Islamabad tonight for talks based on our 10 points.

He later deleted the statement

Kata'ib Hezbollah in Iraq published a collage of 25 killed terrorists from their ranks due to American airstrikes carried out during the war with Iran. 3 of them were senior commanders.

The IDF attacked and eliminated yesterday (Wednesday) Ali Yosef Harshi, the personal secretary of the Secretary-General of the terrorist organization Hezbollah, and nephew of Naeem Qassem in the Beirut area, in Lebanon.

Harshi was a close associate and personal advisor to Hezbollah Secretary-General Naeem Qassem, and played a central role in managing his office and security.

During the night, the IDF attacked two main crossings used by Hezbollah terrorists to move from north to south Litani in Lebanon, for transferring thousands of weapons, rockets, and launchers. About 10 weapons warehouses, launchers, and headquarters used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon were also attacked.