Overview
- Pakistan’s deputy prime minister said US and Iranian delegations held constructive, wide‑ranging talks and that Islamabad will keep facilitating under the current truce.
- President Trump ordered the US Navy to block ship traffic to and from Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz.
- Leaders in the UK, Spain, Australia and Japan declined to join or said they were not asked to join the US move, while France proposed a defensive, multinational mission to restore safe passage.
- Radio Farda reported the strait has already been effectively shut by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, squeezing global energy flows and supplies from oil to fertilizers, petrochemicals and helium.
- Two rights groups reported at least 1,639 executions in Iran in 2025, the highest since 1989, with nearly half tied to drug charges and a sharp rise in executions of women.