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4/23/2026, 12:13:39 PM
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The White House says a ceasefire with Iran is still in place despite Tehran attacking three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday.
Iranian state media released this video which purportedly shows soldiers seizing two ships.
Multiple US officials have told CBS News Iran maintains more military capabilities than the government has publicly admitted.
And yesterday, White House press secretary Karoline Levitt said there's no firm deadline for an Iranian proposal.
President wants a unified response.
And so as we await that response, there's a ceasefire with the military and kinetic strikes, but operation economic fury continues and the effective and successful naval blockade continues as well.
And we're seeing yet another high-profile departure from the Trump administration.
Navy Secretary John Fineran is leaving his role effective immediately.
That means the Department of the Navy is losing its top civilian officer while playing a key role in the ongoing Iran war.
We've got team coverage on all these notes for you this morning.
Aaron Navarro is tracking the latest on Iran from our DC Bureau, but let's begin with CBS News foreign correspondent Ramy Inocencio joining us live from London.
Ramy, good morning.
The US and Iran vying for control over the Strait of Hormuz as we've reported on extensively.
What's the latest on that fight?
Yeah, Errol, good morning.
Well, frankly, it's it's tense.
It's still tense.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards released that video you showed just now amping up that tension.
The seizure of two cargo ships that we reported yesterday boarding the MSC Epaminondas.
That's a Greek flag ship that had tried to evade Iranian detection.
We now know they failed along with that other ship, the MSC Francesca, now in Iranian hands.
And today, senior Iranian government officials are pointing the finger, the blame here at the White House for this freeze in peace talks that we thought earlier this week might happen.
You know, it's not happening at least right at this point with JD Vance, the Vice President still in the United States.
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian says that they do, that Tehran does want, as you said, dialogue.
But he says it's because of the US.
It's because the US has blockaded the strait.
It's because the US, in his words, has breached commitments.
And that appears to be a reference to the US earlier agreeing that Lebanon would be included in this current ceasefire, but which Israel said wasn't.
And then we've seen these massive bombings of Hezbollah strongholds in the country.
Furthermore, Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Golbaf weighed in and said basically it's impossible to reopen the strait because of this and the tension, you know, oil is continuing to be the barometer of this tension.
I'm seeing that spill into the oil market today.
Yesterday, we talked about oil crossing that psychological $100 a barrel mark.
Right now I'm looking at it over 103 bucks a barrel.
So again, this tension spilling over here and no sign of any talks moving forward.
All right, Ramy, thank you for that update.
Let's jump now to CBS News White House reporter Aaron Navarro in Washington.
Good morning, Aaron.
Help us understand the circumstances surrounding the Navy Secretary leaving and and what it may reveal about behind-the-scenes dynamics and tensions in the US as this war unfolds.
Yeah, good morning, Errol.
It was John Fineran's background as a businessman and as a donor to President Trump's political campaigns that brought him into this role in the Navy in the first place.
A White House official said it was agreed by both President Trump and the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth though that new leadership at the Navy was needed and that it was Hegseth who informed Fineran he was fired before it was announced publicly.
Sources told CBS News that Fineran frequently argued and clashed with Secretary Hegseth as well as Pentagon Deputy Secretary Steve Feinberg.
Though it is unknown if any of that stems from disagreements with this war in Iran.
The timing is of course significant given the naval blockade by the US on Iranian ports, though publicly the White House has only said that President Trump is satisfied with the blockade so far.
But Democrats are now showing concern over what the leadership turnover in the Navy in the Navy will mean for this conflict.
This is what Congressman Jason Crow, a Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said yesterday.
Generals and admirals talk about things destroyed, things blowing up.
What's going to be the new strategy?
What's going to be the new approach?
And we just spin our wheels, spend trillions of dollars of taxpayer money.
Americans pay for it.
Working class kids do the fighting and the dying.
And it's an endless cycle, which is why it just needs to stop.
There could also be more concerns from Democrats over the new acting civilian leader of the Navy, Fineran's Under Secretary Hung Cao.
He is a Navy veteran who has also ran for Congress multiple times as a Republican, most recently for Senate in Virginia in 2024.
But Fineran is now the third high-profile official to leave the Pentagon in recent months after Hegseth asked the Army Chief of Staff, General Randy George, to step down earlier this month.
All right, Aaron, thank you.
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