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The Pentagon told the House Armed Services Committee in a classified briefing that clearing mines from the Strait of Hormuz would likely take six months, a person familiar with the briefing told AP. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said a six-month closure was “an impossibility” and accused media of cherry-picking leaked information; Hegseth declined to speculate.
IRGC-linked Tasnim said the controlled-passage channels through the Strait of Hormuz were closed “until further notice” after a ceasefire violation, until guarantees were given that the U.S. blockade would be fully lifted. MarineTraffic showed no vessels in the waterway afterward, and Maersk said transit “should be avoided.”
A U.S. official told CBS News that American negotiators in Islamabad proposed at least a 20-year suspension of Iranian uranium enrichment plus other restrictions; AP, citing a regional official and a person briefed, said Iran rejected it and offered a five-year moratorium, which the White House turned down. IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said the length of any moratorium was a political decision but any deal needed “very detailed” verification.
Iran fired seven ballistic missiles at Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, whose debris fell near energy facilities, and an attack caused a fire at SABIC plants in Jubail, an AFP source said; the IRGC said it hit U.S.-linked petrochemical sites in Jubail and Ju'aymah in retaliation for Israeli strikes on a Shiraz petrochemical plant. Saudi Arabia briefly closed the King Fahd Causeway, its only road link to Bahrain, as a precaution.
An Iranian drone strike on Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait overnight injured 15 Americans, two U.S. officials told CBS News, with most returning to duty.
Early Monday strikes damaged buildings at Tehran's Sharif University of Technology, which several countries have sanctioned over work on Iran's missile program, and a neighbouring gas distribution site; a strike on residential units in Baharestan county near Eslamshahr killed at least 13, Fars reported. Iranian media tallied at least 34 dead from the overnight wave, including 23 in Tehran province, five in Qom and six in Bandar-e Lengeh.
CMA CGM's Malta-flagged Kribi became possibly the first France-linked vessel to cross the strait since Iran closed it, taking a northerly route between Qeshm and Larak islands, MarineTraffic data showed; Mitsui O.S.K. Lines said the Japanese-Omani-owned Sohar LNG crossed Friday, the first Japan-affiliated passage of the war. Neither company said whether passage was arranged with Iran.
U.S.-Israeli strikes hit the B1 highway bridge between Tehran and Karaj, billed as the Middle East's tallest and still under construction, and struck it again while rescuers were at the scene, Fars reported; Alborz officials first put the toll at 8 dead and 95 wounded, many of them gathered for Nature Day, and Al Jazeera later reported at least 13 killed. Trump posted video of "the biggest bridge in Iran" collapsing, writing "Much more to follow" and urging Iran to make a deal.
U.S. officials gave mediators "clear assurances" that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf would not be targeted, two regional officials and a person briefed told AP; the person said Pakistan had asked Washington to get Israel to take the two off its hit list. Trump said on April 5 that Iran's negotiators had been given "immunity from death."
Fars, citing Mobarakeh Steel Company, said massive U.S.-Israeli strikes caused significant destruction to production units at its Isfahan complex and damaged subsidiary Sefid Dasht Steel. By Thursday Mobarakeh said its production lines had completely shut down and Khuzestan Steel said halted units would not restart for at least six months; Netanyahu later claimed 70% of Iran's steelmaking capacity had been destroyed.
An airstrike on Wednesday morning appears to have struck inside the former U.S. Embassy compound on Tehran's Taleghani Street, which the Revolutionary Guard has controlled since the 1979 hostage crisis, AP reported; witnesses saw blown-out windows around the compound but no visible impact outside it.
Motor club AAA put the national average for regular gasoline at $4.02 a gallon, more than a dollar higher than before the war began and the highest since 2022, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
A strike early Tuesday outside Isfahan, near Mount Soffeh, produced huge fireballs and secondary explosions consistent with an ammunition store igniting, in video Trump shared without comment. Al Jazeera's Tehran correspondent said a large number of bunker-buster bombs were dropped on a mountainous area next to the city; Iran did not formally acknowledge the attack.
Tehran lawmaker Malek Shariati said a priority bill to withdraw Iran from the NPT had been uploaded to parliament's online portal for review, after the national security commission's spokesman said staying in the treaty had brought no benefit. Any such law would also need Guardian Council approval, and parliament has not sat since the war began.
Lloyd's List Intelligence said ships must now give Iran's Revolutionary Guard their manifests, crew details and destinations for vetting before transiting, and that at least two vessels had paid for passage in Chinese yuan. Fars and Tasnim quoted lawmaker Mohammadreza Rezaei Kouchi as saying parliament was pursuing a plan to codify Iran's sovereignty over the strait and collect fees.
Iran's Press TV quoted an unnamed official as saying Tehran rejected the U.S. 15-point proposal that Pakistan had passed on, and set out five conditions: an end to killings of its officials, guarantees against another war, reparations, an end to hostilities and Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. The White House said Trump was prepared to 'unleash hell' if Iran did not accept it had been defeated, while insisting talks had not hit a dead end.
U.S. officials said part of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, including a battalion of the 1st Brigade Combat Team and division commander Maj. Gen. Brandon Tegtmeier with his staff, would deploy in the coming days; AP's sources put the force at about 1,000 troops and a CBS source at fewer than 1,500.
India said two Indian-flagged LPG tankers carrying roughly a day's supply of its cooking gas crossed the strait late Monday on a route approved by Iran close to its coast, and tracking data showed the Chinese-owned container ship Newvoyager transited Iran's pay-to-pass corridor between Larak and Qeshm islands.
Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces said an airstrike on its command headquarters in western Anbar province killed 15 fighters, including Anbar operations commander Saad Dawai al-Baiji, and blamed the United States.
U.S. officials told CBS News that current intelligence assessments show at least a dozen Iranian-made Maham 3 and Maham 7 limpet mines in the strait, though another official put the count at fewer than a dozen. Earlier Monday, Iran's National Defense Council warned it would lay mines across all access routes in the Persian Gulf if Iran's coasts or islands were attacked.
An Egyptian official told AP that Washington and Tehran exchanged messages over the weekend through Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan, aimed at averting strikes on energy infrastructure. Later Monday, a senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official told CBS News Iran had received "points from the U.S. through mediators" that were being reviewed.
U.S. officials said the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer and two other amphibious ships left San Diego for the Middle East with Marines of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, roughly 2,500 by AP's count and about 2,200 by CBS's. It is the second such unit sent since the war began and could take weeks to arrive.
Palestinian medics said an Iranian missile strike on Beit Awa killed at least three people and later reported at least four dead and eight wounded as counts shifted; the Israeli military said an unintercepted cluster munition hit a structure. Shortly after, Magen David Adom said a foreign worker in his 30s was killed by shrapnel in Israel's South Sharon region.
Two Iraqi security officials said a drone struck the top floor of the Rasheed Hotel in the Green Zone, which houses diplomatic delegations and international organizations, causing damage but no casualties. Earlier Monday the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah announced the death of senior security official Abu Ali al-Askari, and strikes killed eight Popular Mobilization Forces fighters in Anbar.
MarineTraffic said the Aframax tanker Karachi, carrying Abu Dhabi's Das crude, crossed the strait with its AIS transponder broadcasting, the first non-Iranian cargo to do so since the war began. It said the ship entered Iran's exclusive economic zone at 11:33 UTC and crossed at 14:43 UTC, suggesting select shipments may be getting negotiated safe passage.
Iran's semi-official Fars and SNN reported 15 people killed in a strike on a factory making heating and cooling equipment in Isfahan on Saturday, a working day in Iran. Israel's military said it had not targeted the area and the U.S. military declined to comment.
A missile struck a helipad inside the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad's Green Zone, two Iraqi security officials said, and video obtained by AP showed smoke rising from the compound; the embassy did not immediately comment. It had renewed its Level 4 security alert a day earlier, warning of attacks by Iran and aligned militias.
U.S. officials said elements of the Japan-based 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli were ordered to the region; CBS said such a group typically numbers about 5,000 sailors and Marines across several ships. AP said the force was more than a week's sailing from the waters off Iran.
Iranian state TV reported a large blast near Ferdowsi Square, down Enghelab Street from Tehran University, as crowds marked Quds Day; earlier that morning Israel had posted a Farsi warning to evacuate the area. The Israeli military later suggested the strike was its own, noting that the judiciary chief was at the rally, which security official Ali Larijani also attended.
Magen David Adom said one person was moderately hurt and 57 lightly injured, mostly by glass, when a strike hit the Arab-Israeli village of Zarzir early Friday, damaging homes and cars. Hezbollah said it had fired rocket salvos toward northern Israel that morning; AP's first report described it as a missile attack.