Closing the Strait of Hormuz was a response to "America's untrustworthiness," the head of Iran's National Security Commission said.
Iran’s navy is ready to “make the enemies taste the bitterness of new defeats,” its supreme leader said today.
“The Army of Islam now, as in the previous two imposed wars, bravely defends the water, land and the flag to which it belongs,” Mojtaba Khamenei posted on Telegram.
Referring to Israel and the U.S., he said Iran was “confronting the two main armies at the head of the front of disbelief and arrogance, exposing their weakness and humiliation before the eyes of the world.”
Speaking in the Oval Office, the president told reporters that Iran “wanted to close up the strait again” and that “they can’t blackmail us.”
Trump added that his administration is currently talking to Iran, saying, “It’s going actually along very well, and we’ll see, but we’ll have some information by the end of the day.”
A container ship in the Strait of Hormuz was hit by an unknown projectile today, according to a British monitoring agency.
The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center said the attack caused damage to some containers on board, but that no fires or environmental impact were reported, with no immediate reports of casualties.
The same body said today that a cruise ship reported sighting a splash in close proximity to a vessel off the coast of Oman.
A French soldier who was part of international forces stationed in southern Lebanon was killed, President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday, adding that evidence suggests Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah was responsible for the attack.
Three other soldiers were wounded and have been evacuated, Macron said in a post on X, urging the Lebanese government to act against the alleged perpetrators.
The soldiers were part of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), a peacekeeping mission in the country’s south.
Recent Sentinel-2 satellite imagery captured active fires raging at two of Iran’s oil refineries days after multiple crude oil storage tanks were damaged at each site.
Imagery taken on Wednesday showed large smoke plumes rising from two damaged crude oil tanks after Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency reported unknown blasts at the site eight days ago. According to data from Tanker Trackers, a maritime research firm, one of the tanks seen burning had the capacity to hold about 1 million barrels of oil — enough to power all U.S. auto traffic for 3.9 hours.
Sentinel-2 image of the Sirri Island Oil Refinery fire on April 15, 2026. Courtesy Copernicus, Sentinel-2, EO browser
At the Lavan oil refinery 95 miles away from Sirri Island, crude oil was seen seeping from multiple tanks and into the Persian Gulf after the Iranian oil ministry’s news outlet Shana reported that they were hit in an “enemy” airstrike on April 8. The damage caused a massive oil spill seen from space in satellite imagery taken on April 10.
Due to cloudy conditions affecting recent satellite imagery, it’s unclear whether there is still an active fire at this site.
A spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, Esmail Baghaei, said today that compensation for war damages was one of Iran’s top priorities in any negotiations with the U.S.
Iran has reopened six airports, including the capital Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport, Iran’s hard-line Student News Network said today.
It said Imam Khomeini Airport, Mehrabad, Mashhad, Birjand, Gorgan and Zahedan airports have been reopened, and that airlines were preparing to operate domestic and international flights.
A spokesperson for Imam Khomeini Airport later said that no passenger flights had been approved so far, the network reported. It said airlines had requested permission, but none had received authorization yet, with the airport ready to operate flights as soon as official permits are issued.
Two Iranian gunboats were reported to have fired at a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz today, according to a British monitoring agency.
The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center said that the tanker and crew were safe and that authorities were investigating the reported incident, 20 nautical miles northeast of Oman.
It added that there was no warning over radio from what it described as “IRGC gun boats” before the tanker was fired on.
Closing the Strait of Hormuz was a response to “America’s untrustworthiness,” the head of Iran’s National Security Commission said today.
“The dark track record of America since the beginning of the revolution has proven that untrustworthiness is an inseparable part of Washington’s political doctrine,” said Ebrahim Azizi, adding the strait was closed in response to “the enemy’s new duplicity.”
Azizi also accused Trump of trying to mislead public opinion by creating the “impression of an agreement” through his comments on social media and to reporters.
Trump said Friday that negotiations on the Iran war would continue through the weekend. He also said that the ceasefire with Iran, which expires Wednesday, may not be extended.
“Iran will not be deceived by hollow rhetoric and has a decisive response prepared at strategic chokepoints for any new act of bad faith,” Azizi said.
The Strait of Hormuz will remain under Iranian military control, Iran’s navy said today, as long as the U.S. blockade remains in place.
“Any breach of commitments by America will receive an appropriate response,” the Navy Command of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said, according to Iran’s semiofficial Fars News agency.
“As long as the passage of vessels from Iran and to Iran is threatened, the status of the Strait of Hormuz will remain as it was before,” it added.
Iranian military officials said today that conditions in the Strait of Hormuz have reverted to “strict control,” citing the continued U.S. blockade of its ports, just one day after declaring the waterway “completely open.”
“Control over the Strait of Hormuz has returned to its previous state, and this strategic waterway is now under strict management and control of the armed forces,” a spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya military command headquarters said.
“Until America allows full freedom of navigation for vessels traveling from Iran to destinations and vice versa, the situation in the Strait of Hormuz will remain under strict control and in its previous condition,” the statement added.
Iran had announced the reopening of the vital waterway on Friday, though there had been limited initial movement while shipping companies assessed the changes.
U.S. Central Command said last night that since the start of the naval blockade of Iranian ports Monday, 21 ships have been turned back to Iran.
The blockade is “on ships attempting to enter or exit Iranian ports,” Central Command said on X.
“Since commencement of the blockade, 21 ships have complied with direction from U.S. forces to turn around and return to Iran,” it said.
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Women, some carrying rifles and rocket launchers and riding on military vehicles, joined in an Army Day parade today in Tehran.
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