11 April 2026
President Donald Trump has warned that he’ll renew and intensify US strikes if a peace deal can’t be reached, and Pakistan’s prime minister described this weekend as a “make-or-break moment.” Fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed paramilitary group, has threatened to derail peace efforts. Hezbollah is urging the Lebanese government not to hold direct talks with Israel, and Iran’s parliament speaker said negotiations with the US are contingent on a ceasefire in Lebanon.
Here’s a roundup of retired US military analyzing the sixth week of the Iran war.
0:00 Fmr Gen David Patraeus on Trump’s criticism of NATO
6:41 Maj Gen MacCarley weighs in on Iran ceasefire
11:05 Gen Patraeus on Iran’s new position in the Middle East
15:55 Brig Gen Kimmitt on who has the upper hand post-ceasefire agree
18:31 Gen Wesley Clark reacts to Kharg Island attacks & potential strikes on Iranian insfrastructure
24:31 Brig Gen Kimmitt reacts to Kharg Island strikes
25:31 Lt Gen Schwartz on both recovered US airmen
27:43 Maj Gen Mark McCarley on second F-15E airman rescued in Iran
TACO has now threatened China with big problems and 50% tariffs if they arm Iran. No mention of the country supplying Iran from the Caspian sea.
The mafia state is immune to Taco threats. It has nothing to fear from its asset in the White House.
🚨 BREAKING: Everything! 😂
BREAKING: Iran says the strait is closed.
BREAKING: Trump says the strait is open.
BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open.
BREAKING: Bloomberg says 3 ships crossed.
BREAKING: Iran says those 3 ships are Iranian.
BREAKING: A fourth ship attempts to cross.
BREAKING: The fourth ship turns around.
BREAKING: The fourth ship’s captain says he “needed to think.”
BREAKING: Insurance for the fourth ship is now $47M.
BREAKING: The fourth ship is still thinking.
BREAKING: Trump posts on Truth Social that Hormuz is “TOTALLY OPEN, BEAUTIFUL, LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN.”
BREAKING: 800 ships remain trapped in the Gulf.
BREAKING: Trump posts again that this is Biden’s fault.
BREAKING: Iran announces tolls of $2M per ship.
BREAKING: Iran announces tolls must be paid in crypto.
BREAKING: Iran has not specified which crypto.
BREAKING: Someone on CT says it’s XRP.
BREAKING: XRP is up 34%.
BREAKING: It is not XRP.
BREAKING: Russia and China veto the UN resolution on Hormuz.
BREAKING: Russia proposes an alternative resolution.
BREAKING: The alternative resolution does not mention Hormuz.
BREAKING: Nobody is surprised.
BREAKING: Israel bombs Lebanon.
BREAKING: Iran says this violates the ceasefire.
BREAKING: Trump says the ceasefire does not cover Lebanon.
BREAKING: Netanyahu says the ceasefire does not cover anything Netanyahu is currently doing.
BREAKING: Ceasefire is now 11 hours old.
BREAKING: Iran closes Hormuz again.
BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open.
BREAKING: Trump floats joint US-Iran toll venture to manage the strait.
BREAKING: The White House clarifies Trump was “just thinking out loud.”
BREAKING: Iran says it will consider the proposal.
BREAKING: Trump says Iran’s 10-point peace plan is “not good enough.”
BREAKING: Trump says it is “a workable basis.”
BREAKING: Both statements were made within the same hour.
BREAKING: 20,000 seafarers are still trapped on ships inside the Gulf.
BREAKING: The IMO says the priority is evacuation.
BREAKING: Iran says passage requires “coordination with armed forces.”
BREAKING: Nobody has coordinated with the armed forces.
BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open.
BREAKING: The strait remains closed.
BREAKING: This is day 41.
BREAKING: We will keep you updated.
(credit Michael Foubert)
Thanks to whoever “unbinned” this. It went into the reject pile because of the last 4 characters of the author’s name.
🚨 BREAKING: Everything! 😂
BREAKING: Iran says the strait is closed.
BREAKING: Trump says the strait is open.
BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open.
BREAKING: Bloomberg says 3 ships crossed.
BREAKING: Iran says those 3 ships are Iranian.
BREAKING: A fourth ship attempts to cross.
BREAKING: The fourth ship turns around.
BREAKING: The fourth ship’s captain says he “needed to think.”
BREAKING: Insurance for the fourth ship is now $47M.
BREAKING: The fourth ship is still thinking.
BREAKING: Trump posts on Truth Social that Hormuz is “TOTALLY OPEN, BEAUTIFUL, LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN.”
BREAKING: 800 ships remain trapped in the Gulf.
BREAKING: Trump posts again that this is Biden’s fault.
BREAKING: Iran announces tolls of $2M per ship.
BREAKING: Iran announces tolls must be paid in crypto.
BREAKING: Iran has not specified which crypto.
BREAKING: Someone on CT says it’s XRP.
BREAKING: XRP is up 34%.
BREAKING: It is not XRP.
BREAKING: Russia and China veto the UN resolution on Hormuz.
BREAKING: Russia proposes an alternative resolution.
BREAKING: The alternative resolution does not mention Hormuz.
BREAKING: Nobody is surprised.
BREAKING: Israel bombs Lebanon.
BREAKING: Iran says this violates the ceasefire.
BREAKING: Trump says the ceasefire does not cover Lebanon.
BREAKING: Netanyahu says the ceasefire does not cover anything Netanyahu is currently doing.
BREAKING: Ceasefire is now 11 hours old.
BREAKING: Iran closes Hormuz again.
BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open.
BREAKING: Trump floats joint US-Iran toll venture to manage the strait.
BREAKING: The White House clarifies Trump was “just thinking out loud.”
BREAKING: Iran says it will consider the proposal.
BREAKING: Trump says Iran’s 10-point peace plan is “not good enough.”
BREAKING: Trump says it is “a workable basis.”
BREAKING: Both statements were made within the same hour.
BREAKING: 20,000 seafarers are still trapped on ships inside the Gulf.
BREAKING: The IMO says the priority is evacuation.
BREAKING: Iran says passage requires “coordination with armed forces.”
BREAKING: Nobody has coordinated with the armed forces.
BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open.
BREAKING: The strait remains closed.
BREAKING: This is day 41.
BREAKING: We will keep you updated.
(credit Michael Fouьert)
😂😂😂
Breaking: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Blockade’ Strait of Hormuz After No Peace Deal Reached
Vice President JD Vance said that marathon talks between the United States and Iran had failed to produce a deal to fully reopen the strait and end the war. Iran’s top negotiator suggested further talks were possible.
President Trump said Sunday that the United States will blockade the Strait of Hormuz, stepping up pressure on Iran after marathon peace talks between top Iranian and American leaders in Pakistan ended without a breakthrough.
The announcement by Mr. Trump plunged the already brittle truce into further uncertainty. Vice President JD Vance and the chief Iranian negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, met in Pakistan over the weekend, but did not reach a deal to fully reopen the strait or conclusively end the war.
“Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL!” Mr. Trump wrote of his planned U.S. blockade in one of two lengthy social media posts on the talks.
Mr. Trump had conditioned the two-week cease-fire on Iran ending its own blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for oil and gas in the Persian Gulf. Iran’s grip on the strait sent global oil prices soaring by more than 50 percent during the monthlong conflict, which began in late February.
In practice, however, only a few ships have transited the Strait of Hormuz since the cease-fire came into effect last Tuesday. U.S. officials blame Iran, which they say has sought to impose tolls on ships passing through the waterway.
Mr. Trump said the U.S. Navy would “seek and interdict” any vessel that paid the fee to Iran. For its part, Iran could see an American naval blockade as an act of war.
Iran’s leaders have given no indication that they intend to relax their control of the waterway, which they view as a crucial bargaining chip, until a permanent peace is reached. In a defiant post on social media earlier on Sunday, Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said “the key” to the strait “is firmly in our hands.”
Analysts said the issues dividing the two countries were so complex — and their differences so entrenched — that cinching a deal in a single round of talks had been highly unlikely.
Neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Ghalibaf, the Iranian negotiator, appeared to rule out additional negotiations. Mr. Trump said in an interview on Sunday with Fox News that his threats had forced Iran “to the bargaining table and they haven’t left,” adding that he believed the United States would eventually get “everything” it wanted from Iran.
Mr. Ghalibaf said on social media earlier Sunday that the United States had been “unable to gain the trust of the Iranian delegation” in this round of talks. “Now it is time for it to decide whether it can earn our trust or not,” he added.
The last talks between the United States and Iran fizzled, and were promptly followed by a U.S.-Israeli attack in late February that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, and ignited more than a month of war. Mediated by Pakistan, this weekend’s negotiations were the highest-level face-to-face encounter between U.S. and Iranian leaders since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Mr. Trump, who was watching a U.F.C. fight in Florida during the talks, had declared the cease-fire last week in part to ease the shock from the loss of access to 20 percent of the world’s oil supplies. The other two key issues were the fate of nearly 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium and Iran’s demand that about $27 billion in frozen revenues held abroad be released, the officials said.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/12/world/iran-war-trump-talks-pakistan
Brilliant plan. If the Iranians can block the strait, so can we. 😂🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡