According to Iranian state news outlet Press TV, Iran has already started the process of reconstructing destroyed and damaged oil infrastructure, with a plan to reach 80% capacity in the next two months. Per Iran’s CEO of the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company, Mohammad Sadeq Azimifar, “Contractors have been mobilized, and restoration work is already in progress.”

According to Fox News, citing two U.S. officials, Vice President JD Vance’s final offer delivered to the Iranian delegation in Islamabad last night, prior to the breakdown of peace talks between the two countries mediated by Pakistan, consisted of the following demands: 1. End all uranium enrichment 2. Dismantle all major nuclear enrichment facilities 3. Retrieve highly enriched uranium 4. Accept a broader peace, security and de-escalation framework that includes regional allies 5. End funding for terrorist proxies Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis 6. Fully open the Strait of Hormuz, charging no tolls for passage

In a highly significant announcement, President Donald J. Trump stated that U.S. naval forces will begin blockading the Strait of Hormuz and that any vessel found paying transit tolls to Iran will be intercepted by the U.S. Navy. Trump also delivered sharp criticism of Iranian negotiators during the announcement.

Newly released security cam footage an Iranian ballistic missile slamming into Qatar's Ras Laffan natural gas production ​hub last month.

All released footage of US airstrikes on Iranian targets, sorted chronologically by the DOD-reported date.

All four Artemis II crew members—NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (commander), Victor Glover (pilot), and Christina Koch (mission specialist), along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen (mission specialist)—have exited the crew module and are now in the inflatable “front porch.”

The delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, represented by the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, has arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan, for tomorrow's talks with representatives of the United States, including Vice President J.D. Vance, Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, and advisor Jared Kushner.

NASA’s Artemis II mission is scheduled to return to Earth today following its journey around the Moon. According to the timeline, the Orion crew module will separate from its service module at approximately 7:30 p.m. ET before beginning its descent, with parachute deployment expected around 8:00 p.m. ET after a 3.9 G reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. Amid concerns about the spacecraft’s heat shield, NASA plans to use a more direct reentry trajectory to reduce the duration of exposure to the extreme temperatures encountered during reentry.

New image of the damage caused by an Iranian drone attack on the AN/FPS-132 ballistic missile early warning radar in Qatar.

Trump on talks in Islamabad: "We'll find out what's going on. They're militarily defeated and now we're going to open up the (Strait)... You have a good team and they meet tomorrow. We'll see how it all works out."

Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf has stated that the end of the conflict between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah and the release of frozen Iranian assets are two preconditions that must be met before Iran will seriously come to the table.

In the ongoing back and forth between Iranian and U.S. decision-makers over the terms of the ceasefire and future negotiations frameworks, U.S. President Donald J. Trump has claimed that Iran holds no cards in the negotiations, despite Iran actively holding the Strait of Hormuz hostage.

Limited ship movement resumes in Strait of Hormuz following U.S.-Iran truce.

Footage of a Hezbollah FPV drone strike on an Israeli Merkava Mk.4 MBT in southern Lebanon earlier this week.

The Israel Defense Force (IDF) has significantly increased the tempo of strikes on Lebanese Hezbollah (LH) positions and infrastructure in Southern Lebanon, amidst ongoing reciprocal strikes between LH and Israel in the past couple days. Per an IDF statement, they have struck more than 200 LH launch sites since the start of operations.

Less than 10 vessels have transited the Strait of Hormuz in the last 24 hours, according to automatic identification system (AIS) information on MarineTraffic, more than 48 hours after President Donald J. Trump announced a 2-week ceasefire if Iran opened the Strait.

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On Thursday, six vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz—one more than on Wednesday but still well below levels seen before the Iran war. The traffic included two oil, chemical, or liquefied natural gas tankers, three cargo ships, and one bunkering tanker, according to data from ship-tracking firm MarineTraffic provided to CBS News.

IDF officials told a closed Knesset briefing that Iran’s new leadership is “more extreme than its predecessor,” - Israeli outlet i24 News

China pushed Iran towards a ceasefire in order to score diplomatic capital with the Trump administration, and hopes to use that credit to begin shifting U.S. policy toward the position that Taiwan is a "breakaway province that should reunite with the mainland" - WSJ