Iran Tightens Its Grip on Hormuz Despite Cease-Fire(www.wsj.com)
20 pointsby ewoodrich5 hours ago3 comments
  • ndiddy4 hours ago
    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

    • JumpCrisscrossan hour ago
      > They agreed to base negotiations on Iran's 10-point proposal

      What is your source for this? My understanding is terms were privately negotiated between unnamed representative of America and Iran.

      • ndiddyan hour ago
        Trump stated "We received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate. Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated." [1] He also posted an official statement from Iran's minister of foreign affairs saying that Trump had "[accepted] the general framework of Iran's 10-point proposal as a basis for negotiations". [2] The specific version of the proposal they are negotiating with does not seem to be public, but Ghalibaf's statement mentions three of the specific points he views the US as breaking.

        [1] https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1163657967133...

        [2] https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1163660721369...

  • burnt-resistoran hour ago
    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.
  • GeoPolAlt4 hours ago
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