The world’s most critical energy corridor remains effectively shut — and the shipping industry says no ceasefire on paper will be enough to reopen it. Nearly two months into the US-Iran war, the global shipping industry is sending a clear and unified message: vessels will not return to the Strait of Hormuz until passage is…

It was not a Persian Gulf intercept. It was not a Strait of Hormuz operation. The oil tanker M/T Tifani — capable of carrying two million barrels of crude — was stopped in the Indian Ocean, in the waters between Sri Lanka and Indonesia, more than 2,000 miles from the nearest point of the conflict…

France and the UK have had enough of watching from the sidelines. Today they convened an emergency multinational meeting on the Strait of Hormuz — because Iran already answered the question the world had been asking for decades. Can Iran close the Strait of Hormuz? Yes. It did. And Europe was never more unprepared for…

The Islamabad talks have been suspended, extended, violated, and resumed three times in two weeks. But strip away the tactical noise — the ship seizures, the fast boat encounters, the Truth Social posts — and what remains is this: the US and Iran history has been building toward this moment for 73 years. And for…

Trump extended the ceasefire. Iran acknowledged it. Then ships started getting hit anyway. Three commercial vessels have been targeted in the Strait of Hormuz in the 24 hours since the “Trump extends ceasefire” announcement — raising the defining question of this conflict: does the ceasefire Iran agreed to reflect the position of the Iranian government,…

Today in the US-Iran war — Tuesday, April 21, 2026. In Tehran, Iran it is currently 8:30 a.m. local time (UTC+3:30). The ceasefire expires at midnight GMT tonight — 8:00 p.m. Eastern, 11:30 p.m. Tehran time. No second round of talks has been confirmed. The nuclear question at the center of the Iran-US war took…

The ceasefire is over in everything but name. Iran has pledged military retaliation after US naval forces attacked an Iranian vessel in the Persian Gulf. Tehran has formally declared there are no plans for fresh peace talks. The April 21 deadline is hours away. The 15-ship US naval blockade is on full combat alert. The…

The clock is counting down to Wednesday. The ceasefire expires at the end of that day, Washington time. The planned second round of U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad has no confirmed Iranian delegation. Brent crude has jumped back above $95 a barrel. And the man whose navy just seized a 900-foot Iranian cargo ship says extending…

Iran wrote the peace proposal. Trump called it “workable.” Both sides shook hands in Islamabad. Then Israel bombed Lebanon. A tanker was seized. The IRGC halted Hormuz shipping. And the ceasefire that was supposed to end 38 days of war is now being pulled apart from every direction simultaneously — with 72 hours left on…

A ship seizure in the Persian Gulf has pushed the already-fragile US-Iran ceasefire to its breaking point. Tehran is vowing revenge. The Islamabad talks are stalling. The April 21 deadline is three days away. And oil markets are pricing in exactly what traders feared most — this ceasefire was never as solid as the headlines…