#️⃣😭 🇺🇸🇮🇷 THE UNITED STATES IS BLOCKADING IRANIAN PORTS, NOT THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, THEREFORE SHIP TRANSITS THROUGH THE STRAIT CANNOT BE CONSIDERED A VIOLATION OF THE BLOCKADE — CNN.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt:

The talks will likely be in the same place as they were last time.

This is important to Trump: the Pakistanis have been incredible mediators, and we appreciate their friendship and their efforts.

They are the only mediator in this negotiation.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent:

We have told countries that if they are buying Iranian oil, or if Iranian money is sitting in their banks, we are now willing to apply secondary sanctions.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt:

The blockade has been fully implemented and is enforced against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports.

This includes all Iranian ports in the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

Our U.S. forces in the region are supporting the freedom of navigation for vessels that are transiting the Strait to and from non-Iranian ports.

💬 🇺🇸🇮🇷 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt:

Look at how gas prices have decreased over the past year since Trump was in office.

President Trump has built the greatest economy in the world before — he is doing it again.

Of course, we have this short-term disruption, but again, it's for the long-term strategic goal of ensuring that these terrorists cannot possess a nuclear bomb.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷🇺🇸 A military adviser to Mojtaba Khamenei opposes extending the ceasefire.

😮‍💨 🇮🇷 Iran has decided to move its entire education system online starting April 21.

💬 🇧🇷 Brazilian President Lula:

Donald Trump has no right to wake up in the morning and threaten a country.

⏳ 🇮🇷 After more than 48 days of a near-total internet shutdown in Iran, limited access is beginning to return, with users now able to use Google search again.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth:

You like to say publicly, Iran, that you control the Strait of Hormuz, but you don’t have a Navy or real domain awareness. You can’t control anything.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth:

Threatening to shoot missiles and drones at ships—commercial ships that are lawfully transiting international waters—that is not control. That’s piracy. That’s terrorism.

💬 🇺🇸 Hegseth:

The U.S. military moved seamlessly from major combat operations to a world-class blockade.

We can make that transition again very quickly and even more powerfully than ever.

At the direction of President Trump, the war department will ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon—never.

We’d prefer to do it the nice way, through a deal led by our great vice president and negotiating team, or we can do it the hard way.

💬 🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson:

Trump is mocking Jesus. He's making fun of Christianity.

The central figure of the religion is being held up for mockery.

💬 🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson on Trump:

Here’s a leader who’s mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of gods, and exalting himself above them.

Could this be the Antichrist? Well, who knows?

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

Iran wants to make a deal... they are willing to do things today they weren't willing to do 2 months ago.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

The Lebanon ceasefire will include Hezbollah, I think Hezbollah will stick to the ceasefire.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

There is no 20 year limit—they will not have nuclear weapons.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

If there is no deal, the fighting will resume.

💬 🇺🇸 Reporter: How much longer will Americans continue to see these high gas prices?

Trump: Well, they are not very high.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump:

Iran has agreed to not have a nuclear weapon; they have agreed to it very powerfully.

They have agreed to give us back the nuclear dust.

We have a lot of agreement with Iran, and I think something is going to happen very positive.