Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a Singapore-flagged container ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, forcing the United Nations maritime agency to temporarily halt its plan to evacuate trapped vessels from the waterway and throwing global shipping into fresh turmoil.
Iran's parliament speaker took a shot at U.S. peace negotiators Thursday, calling America's offer to unfreeze assets for agricultural purchases a harvest of "broken promises," and Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded in kind: no deal will let Tehran charge ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Period.
President Trump insisted Tuesday that Iran had "fully and completely" agreed to allow inspections of its nuclear sites as part of war-ending negotiations, even as Tehran's government flatly denied any such commitment.
The State Department announced that Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Bahrain this week to discuss the memorandum of understanding with Iran.
President Trump threatened to add The New York Times' remarks on the conflict between the United States and Iran to his current lawsuit against the company.
Vice President J.D. Vance flew into Switzerland Sunday to work through the details of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, the 14-point ceasefire framework Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed last week
President Donald Trump held a press conference Wednesday at the G7 summit in France, defending a 14-point memorandum of understanding his administration has reached with Iran to end the war.
