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Iran War Live Updates: Trump Again Offers Conflicting Signals on War’s End
Iran’s armed forces said they would attempt to expand their influence over sea lanes beyond the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. military continued to block Iranian shipping.
Here’s the latest.
Iran on Wednesday threatened further retaliation over an American naval blockade of its ports in the critical Strait of Hormuz as the U.S. military said that it had “completely halted” trade in and out of Iran by sea.
More than 10,000 soldiers, as well as dozens of planes and warships, are enforcing the blockade, the U.S. military said.
In response, the Iranian military said on state media that it could expand its grip over critical shipping routes beyond the strait if the U.S. blockade continued.
“Iran’s powerful armed forces will not allow any exports or imports to continue in the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman and the Red Sea,” said Maj.
Gen.
Ali Abdollahi, leader of the military joint command that oversees Iran’s army and Revolutionary Guards.
Mediators are rushing to shore up a two-week cease-fire in the war between the United States, Israel and Iran that expires April 21.
But the future of the talks is unclear after a meeting between Vice President JD Vance and senior Iranian leaders over the weekend in Pakistan ended without a breakthrough.
Esmaeil Baghaei, a senior Iranian official, said that Iran had continued to exchange messages with the United States through Pakistan since the talks ended on Sunday morning.
President Trump, in an interview with Fox Business, again deemed the conflict “close to over” — a claim he has made repeatedly — while also suggesting that U.S. attacks could continue as long as needed to keep Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Iran has not fully relaxed its control over the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf conduit for oil and gas, which Mr.
Trump said was a precondition for the current truce.
Iran began blockading the Strait of Hormuz as a pressure tactic during the war, rattling the world economy and sending energy prices soaring.
Reaching a deal to end the war would require not only an agreement to reopen the strait, but also an agreement over Iran’s nuclear program and Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon against Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group.
The United States announced on Tuesday that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to “launch direct negotiations” to end fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The announcement followed a rare face-to-face meeting in Washington between the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors.
Hezbollah condemned the Lebanese government for negotiating with Israel, however, and it was unclear whether any Israel-Lebanon agreement would lead to an end in the fighting .
Hezbollah has long been Lebanon’s dominant military and political force, defying attempts by the official Lebanese government to assert control.
Here’s what else we’re covering:
Lebanon: The talks between Israel and Lebanon did not lead to an immediate cease-fire.
Israeli forces bombarded towns in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, according to Lebanese state media.
Several people were killed in a strike in the coastal town of Ansariya, Lebanon’s official National News Agency said.
Iranian rescues: Emergency teams have rescued more than 7,200 Iranians from rubble after U.S. and Israeli bombings throughout the war, the president of Iran’s Red Crescent society, Pir Hossein Kolivand, said.
The Iranian authorities have released little comprehensive information about the dead and wounded in the country, more than a month in the war.
Death tolls: The Human Rights Activists News Agency said at least 1,701 civilians , including 254 children, had been killed in Iran as of last Wednesday.
Lebanon’s health ministry said on Tuesday that 2,124 people had been killed in the latest fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
In attacks attributed to Iran, at least 32 people have been killed in Persian Gulf nations.
At least 22 people had been killed in Israel as of Sunday, as well as 12 Israeli soldiers fighting in Lebanon.
The American death toll stands at 13 service members.
Update from Sanam Mahoozi
The spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, Esmail Baghaei, said on Wednesday that there was still no timetable for setting another round of negotiations with the United States.
President Trump had said on Tuesday that new talks could be held in the coming days.
Update from Erika Solomon and Sanam Mahoozi
The spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry said that there was a “high chance” Iran would host a delegation of Pakistani mediators on Wednesday.
“Following the discussions that took place in Islamabad, as well as the talks the Pakistani side has had with the United States, our views have been conveyed and heard,” Esmail Baghaei, the spokesman, told a news conference in Tehran, according to the state news agency, IRNA.
“Naturally, during this visit, there will likely be comprehensive discussions about the perspectives of both sides.”
Update from Aaron Boxerman
A day after Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors met in Washington for negotiations, the Israeli military said it was continuing to attack in southern Lebanon.
Israeli forces had struck more than 200 targets there over the past 24 hours, the military said.
Israel says its military campaign is against Hezbollah, the Iran-backed armed group.
But Lebanon as a whole is paying a steep price: more than 1 million people have been forced to flee their homes, and more than 2,000 have been killed, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
As talks begin, U.S. applies little pressure to Israel to stop the fighting in Lebanon.
The rare talks between Israel and Lebanon in Washington this week were hailed by the United States as a “historic milestone” and a major first step toward lasting peace between the Mideast neighbors.
But the message the Trump administration sent as the talks concluded suggested a different reality: that Israel was under little pressure from Washington to end the fighting.
The meeting, which took place on Tuesday and was the first of its kind in decades, ended with an agreement to work toward “direct negotiations” between Israel and Lebanon, a U.S. statement said.
The statement did not, however, call for a halt to Israeli strikes in Lebanon against the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah as a condition for negotiations, instead citing Israel’s “right to defend itself” from Hezbollah’s “continued attacks.”
Nor did it urge Israel to withdraw from Lebanese territory that it has invaded and signaled that it plans to occupy .
The statement provided further indication that Washington was largely leaving Israel to decide whether to press the offensive in Lebanon, even as the humanitarian toll mounted .
Israel has overwhelming military superiority and is pressing its advantage on the battlefield, while Lebanon’s government is hobbled and exercises no direct control over Hezbollah.
The powerful group has outright rejected any negotiations with Israel, leaving Lebanese officials to negotiate over a war that is largely out of their control.
After more than a year of near-daily strikes , Israel last month launched a sweeping offensive against Hezbollah.
That operation came after Hezbollah fired a salvo of rockets into Israel in solidarity with Iran, which had been attacked by Israel and the United States.
Despite President Trump’s announcement of a cease-fire with Iran last week, Israel has intensified attacks in Lebanon , claiming that the country was not included in the truce .
Mr.
Trump said last week that he had urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to scale back the campaign.
But other than a halt to strikes on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, there has been little sign of a slowdown in attacks .
For Lebanon’s government, even the prospect of talks with Israel was deeply fraught at home, exposing political divisions about how to engage with Israel, which it still officially regards as an enemy state.
Lebanese officials nonetheless signaled an openness to negotiations and, under mounting international pressure, reiterated pledges to disarm Hezbollah.
In response, Hezbollah leaders rejected calls to lay down their arms and threatened street protests that could further destabilize the country .
Lebanon’s promise to disarm Hezbollah comes as Israel seems no closer to agreeing to halt strikes that have inflicted widespread civilian casualties and destruction in Lebanon.
That contrast fuels Hezbollah’s accusations that the Lebanese government is acquiescing to Israel and engaging in futile negotiations while still under fire.
But Lebanon’s government has few cards left to play, and it faces a bitter dilemma: confront Hezbollah and risk internal rupture, or shrink from that fight and watch as Israel’s war grinds on.
Update from Erika Solomon
The operational command for Iran’s armed forces has warned that Tehran will attempt to expand its authority over critical shipping routes beyond the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. blockade of the strategic waterway continues.
If the blockade “creates insecurity” for Iran’s commercial and oil vessels, Iran will consider it “a prelude to violating the cease-fire,” according to a statement from Maj.
Gen.
Ali Abdollahi, the commander overseing Iran’s army and Revolutionary Guards.
In that case, “Iran’s powerful armed forces will not allow any exports or imports to continue in the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman and the Red Sea,” he said.
Update from Ali Watkins
Fox Business just aired more of its interview with President Trump, who said that he believed the war with Iran was “close to over,” while also suggesting that U.S. attacks would continue as long as it takes to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon.
He also repeated his threats to attack Iranian civilian infrastructure, while saying he hoped it wouldn’t come to that.
“We could take out every one of their bridges in one hour.
We could take out every one of their power plants in one hour,” he told the host Maria Bartiromo.
“We don’t want to do that.”
He added that the economic crisis touched off by the war was “worth it” to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon.
American intelligence assessments have consistently said that before U.S.-Israeli attacks began Feb.
28, Iran had been undecided over whether to pursue a nuclear weapon — unless their enrichment sites were attacked or their supreme leader was killed.
In Iran, emergency teams have rescued more than 7,200 people from rubble after U.S. and Israeli bombings throughout the war, the president of Iran’s Red Crescent society, Pir Hossein Kolivand, said.
He released a statement on Wednesday with statistics from the group’s operations that said that some missions to recover human remains from bombings took as long as 20 days.
The death toll in Iran since the war began Feb. 28 is not fully clear, but Iran’s Human Rights Activists News Agency has said that at least 1,701 civilians, including 254 children, had been killed as of last Wednesday.
Israeli forces bombarded towns in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, according to Lebanese state media, as the military kept up its sweeping ground invasion there.
Several people were killed in a strike in the coastal town of Ansariya, Lebanon’s official National News Agency said.
The Israeli military said that it was continuing to attack Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group.
Update from Lily Kuo
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, asked Moscow on Wednesday to help promote a more “just and equitable international order” in the face of a “changing and turbulent” international situation, an apparent reference to the war in Iran and other conflicts.
Speaking in Beijing with Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, Mr.
Xi said that amid such instability China-Russia relations were “especially precious.”
Update from Qasim Nauman
Pakistan, led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the army chief Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, has been a key mediator in the U.S.-Iran talks.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry said Sharif would leave on Wednesday for Saudi Arabia and Qatar to discuss “regional peace and security” with their leaders.
The ministry did not explicitly reference the Iran war.
The final stop on Sharif’s April 15-18 trip is Turkey, where he is expected to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other world leaders, Pakistan’s foreign ministry said.
President Trump reiterated that Iran wanted to negotiate a deal, telling Maria Bartiromo of Fox News that the war was near its end.
“I think it’s close to over, yeah, I mean I view it as very close to over,” he said when asked if the war had ended, speaking in a clip from the interview posted on Tuesday night.
The president has previously indicated that the war was ending.
In his address to the nation on April 1, he estimated that it should wind down within three weeks.
His interview with Bartiromo is scheduled to air on the Fox Business channel on Wednesday morning.
The U.S. military has completely stopped commercial traffic to and from Iranian ports, Adm.
Brad Cooper, the Central Command leader, said late Tuesday.
The blockade began on Monday but trackers showed several Iranian-linked vessels traveling through the Strait of Hormuz after that.
It was unclear if those ships departed within a grace period.
Intelligence experts have also observed ships using tactics to avoid detection in waters in and around the strait.
Vance faces antiwar heckling at a Turning Point USA event.
Vice President JD Vance was heckled at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Georgia on Tuesday in what appeared to be criticism of wars in the Middle East.
About 10 minutes into the event, a member of the audience interrupted Mr.
Vance’s remarks to yell out, “Jesus Christ does not support genocide!”
Minutes later, a voice yelled out, “You’re killing children!
You’re bombing children!”
The person appeared to mention the war in Gaza .
Later in his appearance, Mr.
Vance appeared to express sympathy with critics of the Iran war.
“I recognize that young voters do not love the policy we have in the Middle East, OK,” he said.
“I understand.”
The vice president’s conciliatory tone appeared to be an acknowledgment that many of President Trump’s supporters voted for him in 2024 on a promise of “no new wars.”
Instead, Mr.
Trump attacked Iran in separate conflicts, threatened to seize control of Greenland and the Panama Canal , and captured President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela in a surprise strike on the country’s capital .
In the following months, the Trump administration negotiated deals for Venezuelan oil and natural resources under the threat of a naval blockade .
Mr.
Vance, a likely presidential candidate in 2028, would have to defend that foreign policy record and seek the support of the anti-interventionist wing of the Make America Great Again political movement.
The war has scrambled Mr.
Trump’s coalition, causing some prominent conservative voices — like Tucker Carlson, who is especially close to Mr.
Vance — to emerge as fierce critics of the war.
Mr.
Vance addressed the audience outbursts, agreeing that “Jesus Christ does not support genocide” and defending the Trump administration’s handling of Gaza.
He added that the audience should be thankful that Mr.
Trump negotiated a cease-fire in the war.
Mr.
Vance, speaking of the heckler, said that “we have consistently tried as much as we can to solve the problems, not just complain about them like the guy who just ran away.”
But the vice president later took a diplomatic tone as he addressed antiwar critics.
Mr.
Vance, who The New York Times reported opposed going to war with Iran , has not openly expressed that stance in public and has instead defended Trump on the war in public remarks .
In responding to antiwar critics, Mr.
Vance argued that conservatives who may not support the war should stick with Mr.
Trump because he had delivered on other Republican priorities — such as immigration.
He added: “I’m not saying you to have to agree with me on every issue.
What I am saying is: Don’t get disengaged because you disagree with the administration on one topic.
Get more involved, make your voice heard even more.
That is how we ultimately take the country back.”
Mr.
Vance did not specify who he was taking the country back from.
Republicans control the White House and hold majorities in both chambers of Congress.
Maritime trackers see an uptick in ‘spoofing’ by ships near the Strait of Hormuz.
Maritime intelligence experts say that more ships in and around the Strait of Hormuz seem to be adopting tactics to avoid detection since the U.S. blockade on vessels coming in and out of Iranian ports went into effect on Monday.
“Now, we are starting to see vessels going dark or using ‘zombie’ or random identification,” Ami Daniel, the chief executive of Windward, a maritime intelligence data provider, said in an interview on Tuesday.
In the weeks after the American-Israeli attack on Iran in late February, Iranian exports went “uninterrupted” and had “almost no need to go off radar,” Mr.
Daniel said.
But in the past 24 hours, more ships appear to be manipulating the global system intended to keep tabs on vessel activity and traffic, suggesting that some vessels linked to Iran are being “a bit more cautious,” he said.
Under international maritime law, most large commercial vessels must travel with a transponder that automatically transmits the ship’s name, location, route and other identifying information.
That includes a 9-digit number with a country code, which serves as a digital fingerprint for a ship.
Vessels in Middle Eastern waters that are now trying to hide their location or are otherwise falsifying information are employing methods that have been perfected by Russian “shadow fleet” vessels evading sanctions related to the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, some experts say.
“Shadow fleet tankers have been experimenting with stateless ID numbers,” said John C.K.
Daly, a nonresident fellow at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute in Washington who has been tracking Russian shadow ships.
“What the Russians have been doing is altering the numbers.”
When a ship is engaged in “spoofing,” as the practice is known, its captain can type in a false origin or destination or can pretend to be piloting another ship altogether.
Vessels can also temporarily turn off their transponders, seeming to disappear in one place and reappear in another, sometimes with altered data.
This approach has enabled Russia to keep up its energy exports and finance its war, generating up to $100 billion a year .
It appears that vessels linked to Iran are using similar methods now, experts say.
Some ships have gone dark, while sanctioned and falsely flagged vessels seem to still be active, a Windward report on Tuesday noted .
“Under previous enforcement frameworks, including the December blockade of Venezuela, sanctioned and stateless tankers were primary targets for interdiction,” the report said.
“The continued movement of similar vessel profiles indicates that operators are testing the practical limits of enforcement in real time.”
By manipulating the global system meant to illuminate ship movements, so-called ghost or shadow vessels may compound confusion about the state of the Strait of Hormuz, even if in the end they cannot breach the American blockade.
“Right now, the strait is a contested information environment,” said Erik Bethel, a partner at Mare Liberum, a maritime technology venture capital fund.
Detection-avoidance tricksmay make it harder for the Navy to identify boats for interdiction.
“A blockade is only as strong as the intelligence behind the interdictions,” Mr.
Bethel said.
The maritime system is complex.
A vessel may be owned by one country, leased to another and travel under a third country’s flag of convenience, Mr.
Bethel said.
That makes determining who is truly behind any given journey a “really hard thing to do.”
Maritime intelligence companies and militaries use an array of sources to stitch together information about vessels, including optical satellites, radar satellites and radio frequencies.
They also collect information being transmitted by sailors, sometimes unwittingly, through their own personal technology, like Fitbits and cellphones.
Still, whatever ruses they employ, vessels off Iran might only get so far.
It is difficult to get out to the open ocean via a waterway as narrow as the Strait of Hormuz without being detected.
A U.S. official said that more than 12 American military vessels were stationed in international waters in the Gulf of Oman.
And on Tuesday, United States Central Command said that six merchant vessels had complied with directions by radio from U.S. forces to turn around and re-enter Iranian ports.
“My expectation is that the U.S.
Navy can sit out in the Gulf of Oman,” Mr.
Daniel of Windward said.
“I don’t think there’s a way to breach the blockade.”
The U.S. says it has blocked Iranian-linked ships from sailing through the Strait of Hormuz.
The United States said on Tuesday that no ships had made it through its blockade of vessels using Iran’s ports.
The announcement, from U.S.
Central Command, came as ship tracking data showed that several Iran-linked vessels had traveled through the Strait of Hormuz after the blockade began on Monday, but that some of those vessels had stopped after emerging east of the strait, along Iran’s southern coast.
That was a possible indication that U.S. forces were telling them not to proceed, shipping analysts said.
It was also unclear exactly when those ships had left port relative to the start of the blockade at roughly 10 a.m.
Eastern time on Monday.
Central Command said on Tuesday that six merchant vessels had complied with directions by radio from U.S. forces to turn around and re-enter Iranian ports.
It did not identify the ships or the ports.
In a separate notice, Central Command said the blockade would be enforced from the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, both east of the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway through which over 120 ships transited daily before the war with Iran began at the end of February.
That traffic carried a fifth of the world’s oil and gas.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters, said that more than 12 American military vessels were stationed in international waters in the Gulf of Oman.
After the war began, Iran blocked nearly all commercial traffic through the strait by threatening and attacking vessels, causing a drastic reduction in the amount of oil and gas getting out to world markets.
That has sharply increased the prices of gasoline, diesel and other energy products around the world, shaking economies and governments.
To help stabilize prices, the United States had not previously sought to block Iranian tankers, so Iranian oil continued to pass through the strait at a volume of crude similar to prewar levels.
But now, the United States is seeking to stop that flow and remove the lifeline it provides to the Iranian economy.
Central Command also appears to be seeking to establish secure passage through the strait for non-Iranian ships, which have stayed away out of fear of attacks from Iran.
The U.S. official said on Tuesday that more than 20 commercial vessels not linked to Iran had transited the strait in the first 24 hours of the blockade, including tankers, cargo carriers and container ships.
The official did not identify the vessels.
Shipping experts said they had not seen that level of traffic.
Kpler, a maritime data firm, said that it had tracked six ships through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.
But some experts cautioned that other ships may have turned off their transponders, devices that enable tracking.
One commercial vessel under U.S. sanctions, the Chinese tanker Rich Starry, traveled eastward through the strait on Tuesday but then turned around.
That suggested that the ship was responding to U.S. directives, according to Noam Raydan, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
“This can be linked to the blockade,” she said.
Another Iran-linked ship, the Elpis, also appeared to make it through the strait during the blockade.
But Ms.
Raydan said the vessel was offline on Tuesday, so it was not clear what its path had been.
Salvatore Mercogliano, a maritime historian and an associate professor at Campbell University in North Carolina, said that any Iran-linked vessels were probably reluctant to venture into the waters east of the strait because of the U.S. warships on patrol.
“They don’t want to come out,” he said.
Though Central Command said that neutral vessels would be allowed to traverse the strait, shipping companies said they had received no instruction from the U.S. military on how to make the journey.
Nils Haupt, a spokesman for the German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, said on Tuesday that the company had not received any official communication from U.S. officials on how to ensure safe passage for its six vessels currently stranded in the Persian Gulf.
Instead, the company was relying on the news media for information, he said.
“We need to know: Is it safe?”
Mr.
Haupt asked.
“Have all the mines been removed?
Do we expect attacks from Iran?
Will ships be accompanied?”
Update from Chris Cameron
Vice President JD Vance, speaking to a conservative Turning Point USA audience at the University of Georgia, later said: “I recognize that young voters do not love the policy we have in the Middle East.
I understand.”
Vance, who The Times reported had opposed going to war with Iran , has not openly expressed that stance in public and has instead defended Trump on the war .
“I’m not saying you to have to agree with me on every issue,” Vance said.
“What I am saying is, don’t get disengaged because you disagree with the administration on one topic.
Get more involved, make your voice heard even more.
That is how we ultimately take the country back.”
A heckler again shouted out “You’re killing children!
You’re bombing children!”
Vance said, “Right now, you have seen more humanitarian aid coming into Gaza than any time in the past five years.”
A heckler appeared to shout an expletive challenging Vance’s claim.
Vice President JD Vance, addressing Pope Leo XIV’s criticism of the U.S.-Iran war, was heckled by a member of the audience who appeared to yell out “Jesus Christ does not support genocide!”
“I agree, Jesus does not support genocide, whoever yelled that out from the dark” Vance said.
“He certainly does not.”
Later in his remarks, he again addressed the heckler, saying that the person should be thankful that President Trump negotiated a cease-fire in Gaza.
“We are the administration that solved the problem,” he said.
Update from Anton Troianovski
Vice President JD Vance said negotiations with Iran were continuing, describing Trump as wanting to make a “grand bargain” with Iran.
Trump’s policy is that Iran “cannot have a nuclear weapon,” Vance told a conservative Turning Point USA audience at the University of Georgia Tuesday.
“Right now, we are negotiating to make sure that very thing happens.”
He added, referring to Trump: “He said that if you’re willing to act like a normal country, we are willing to treat you economically like a normal country.
He doesn’t want a small deal.”
Canada suspends its federal gas tax as the war drives up fuel costs.
Canada on Tuesday became the latest country to take measures to help consumers facing rising prices at the pump due to the war in Iran and the disruption of global energy markets.
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that he would temporarily suspend a federal gas tax until early September.
The move is expected to slash the cost of a liter of gasoline by 10 Canadian cents and the price of a liter of diesel by 4 Canadian cents.
Mr.
Carney said the move was “a responsible measure that will reduce operating costs for truckers and businesses in the food, agriculture, housing, construction, and delivery sectors” and will cost 2.4 billion Canadian dollars ($1.7 billion).
The price of gas in Canada has shot up by about 27 percent at the pump since the Iran war began, Bloomberg analysis shows, exacerbating already existing cost-of-living concerns for many Canadians.
The opposition Conservative Party had been pressing Mr.
Carney to slash all taxes on gas until the end of the year, but he opted to maintain a separate 5 percent goods-and-services tax and keep the relief limited to approximately five months.
Canada is an important oil and gas exporter, and, while consumers have faced steeper costs, the Canadian energy industry has benefited from the higher prices.
Mr.
Carney said that his government was investing in infrastructure to boost oil and gas production and shield Canadians from these types of shocks in the future.
“To make Canada more energy secure and less reliant on external factors, our government is advancing major projects to realize Canada’s full potential in clean and conventional energy,” he said.
Public opinion in Canada, where environmental protections are built into the regulatory system, has swung in favor of more investments in oil and gas.
But such projects will take years to complete and are unlikely to help Canada in the short term.
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