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Shipping Remains Slow at Strait of Hormuz Despite Ceasefire

Ship-tracking services reported on Thursday that traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains at less than 10 percent of its normal level, despite Iran ostensibly promising to halt terror attacks on civilian vessels as part of its ceasefire agreement with the U.S. and Israel.

A man walks along the shore as oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz

‘For a Bright Future’: Iran Urges Youth to Form ‘Human Chains’ at Power Plants and Bridges as Trump’s Deadline Nears

Iranian authorities are urging young people, students, artists, athletes, and volunteer groups to form “human chains” around power plants across the country just hours before President Donald Trump’s deadline for a deal expires, effectively gathering civilians at infrastructure sites the United States has explicitly threatened to strike.

An Iranian schoolboy salutes while standing beside a portrait of a child killed in an airs

By Way of Deception: Trump, Ratcliffe Detail CIA Subterfuge Mission Saving U.S. Airman Concealed Deep Inside Iran

President Donald Trump and CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Monday detailed a high-risk rescue deep inside Iran in which U.S. forces — aided by a CIA-led “deception campaign” — raced “against the clock” to locate and recover a wounded airman concealed in a mountain crevice, “invisible to the enemy, but not to the CIA,” after his F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down, while evading capture for nearly two days behind enemy lines.

President Donald Trump watches as CIA Director John Ratcliffe speaks with reporters in the

Who Is Running Iran? CIA, Mossad Search for Signs of Unseen Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei — ‘No Proof He’s at the Helm’

U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies are scrambling to determine who is actually running Iran after the regime’s newly installed “supreme leader” Mojtaba Khamenei — who has not been seen or heard from publicly since the opening strikes of the war that killed his father — again failed to appear publicly for Nowruz, the Persian New Year, with officials warning there is “no proof that he is taking the helm” and describing the situation as “beyond weird.”

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