President Trump’s announcement that Iran had agreed to “completely open” the Strait of Hormuz bolstered hopes that the two governments were keeping alive a cease-fire agreement reached last week and nearing a framework for further negotiations to reach a lasting peace deal.

The U.S. Treasury Department has extended its pause on sanctions on Russian oil shipments to ease shortages from the Iran war, days after Secretary Scott Bessent ruled out such a move.

The price of oil plunged sharply and U.S. stock indexes opened at new all-time highs after the Iranian foreign minister said that the Strait of Hormuz was open for commercial vessels."In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon,

President Trump has said that he went to war to stop Iran from ever having a nuclear bomb. Unfortunately, the war he launched led Iran to discover that it already had an extremely effective doomsday weapon—one that promised the economic equivalent of mutual assured destruction.

Donald Trump said Israel was not allowed to bomb Lebanon; Iran opens the strait of Hormuz during ceasefire negotations

Thousands of boxes sent to service members in Middle East are stuck in limbo. The Postal Service has indefinitely suspended delivery amid Iran war.

Former CFR head Richard Haass said today on MS NOW's "Morning Joe" that he is cautiously optimistic as Israel and Lebanon begin a ten-day ceasefire, resolving one of the stumbling blocks between Iran and the US more than a week into their two-week ceasefire.