Iran Tightens Its Grip on Hormuz Despite Cease-Fire

ndiddy

More information: The ceasefire agreement was mediated by Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan. He announced yesterday that the US and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire everywhere, including Lebanon. They agreed to base negotiations on Iran's 10-point proposal. [1] Trump released his own statement that the US was agreeing to the ceasefire, again using Iran's 10-point proposal as a basis. [2] Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel would comply with the ceasefire. [3] Hours later, Israel carried out a brutal strike on dense commercial and residential areas in Southern Lebanon without warning, killing at least 254 people and injuring more than 1,000 others. [4] The IRGC announced that if Trump didn't rein in Israel, Iran would exit the ceasefire arrangement. [5] Trump then told a reporter that Lebanon was not in the deal, contradicting Sharif's statement. [6] In response, Iran's speaker of the parliament released a statement outlining how the US had violated three of Iran's 10 points and that he viewed a bilateral ceasefire as now being unreasonable. [7] [1] https://x.com/CMShehbaz/status/2041665043423752651 [2] https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1163657967133... [3] https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/2041714151374856232 [4] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/8/hundreds-of-casualti... [5] https://x.com/Tasnimnews_EN/status/2041886432239788297 [6] https://x.com/ElizLanders/status/2041878299454955640 [7] https://x.com/mb_ghalibaf/status/2041943537386958858

burnt-resistor

In other words, Iran won because it gained a revenue source and dominion over the SoH that it didn't already exercise. It cost the US over $1 B a day, a dozen+ lives, injuries to hundreds, rises in petroleum product costs and decreases in inventory for the US and the world that cannot be addressed except over 30-90 days because it's a deep supply chain, many major producers were also knocked offline and require $100M's each replacement machines built in Europe that take months-years to fabricate, and a loss of US respect and soft and hard power. Wag the dog but I guess it distracted billionaire-consolidated news media from the Epstein files.