Overview
- The Israeli military said it carried out large-scale strikes on infrastructure in Tehran early Friday, with blasts also reported in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
- Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it fired missiles and drones at military and energy sites in Israel and Gulf states and declared the Strait of Hormuz shut to ships tied to the “enemy,” forcing three vessels to turn back.
- President Donald Trump postponed his threat to strike Iran’s power network by 10 days to April 6 and said talks were going “very well.”
- The Wall Street Journal and Axios reported the Pentagon is considering sending about 10,000 more U.S. troops and has planned options to seize or block key islands near the Strait of Hormuz, including Kharg and Larak.
- Hormuz is a chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of the world’s oil in peacetime, so new limits on transit raise the risk of higher fuel costs and wider shipping disruptions.