Washington and Tehran are sparring over the terms of the ceasefire, while hundreds of vessels remain stuck in the strategic waterway

Hezbollah has targeted a strategic Israeli border settlement after the IDF carried out a deadly series of bombings that left at least 254 people dead and over 1,165 injured in a single day in Lebanon.

“This response will continue until the Israeli-American aggression against our country and our people ceases,” the Lebanese armed group said after firing rockets at the Manara settlement early on Thursday.

The US and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday after President Donald Trump said Tehran’s ten-point proposal delivered via Pakistan offers a “workable basis” for negotiations.

However, Tehran has since accused the US and Israel of violating three of its ten conditions for ending the war, making the agreement appear unstable. The US and Israel are now insisting that Lebanon was never part of the deal.

Shipping traffic through the strategic Strait of Hormuz also remains limited and under the control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – which has published a map of “designated routes” due to the risk of mines. 

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Key developments:

• Iranian parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has accused the US of violating three key clauses of Tehran’s ten‑point proposal, including non‑compliance with the Lebanon ceasefire, the intrusion of a drone into Iranian airspace, and “denial of Iran’s right to enrichment.”

• US Vice President J.D. Vance said he has seen three different ten-point demands from Iran, which have contributed to “misunderstanding,” claiming that the first draft was “probably written by ChatGPT” and went straight “in the garbage.”

• Trump lashed out at NATO member states that closed their airspace to US warplanes and limited the use of their bases for strikes on Iran. Washington is considering pulling out troops to “punish” those states, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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