Live Thread: War With Iran Continues #3

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https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/2045613858119622936

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IDF forces struck Hezbollah terrorists who violated the ceasefire agreement and threatened Israeli soldiers.

The Israeli Air Force @IAFsite and ground troops engaged the terrorists and destroyed the terror infrastructure. The @IDF clarified that self-defense operations are not limited by the ceasefire.



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Ceasefire In Jeopardy After Iran Fires At Multiple Vessels

Trending Politics News
By Cullen McCue
April 18, 2026



In a sharp escalation of tensions in the Persian Gulf, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) gunboats opened fire on commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. The move caused dozens of ships that were attempting to navigate the strait to turn back, while the Iranian government confirmed that the vital waterway is closed despite previous claims to the contrary.

According to reports from the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) and maritime security firms, Iranian gunboats approached and fired warning shots, and in some cases live rounds, at vessels attempting passage. At least one tanker and a container ship were targeted, with captains describing “bullets raining” on their ships.

Two Indian-flagged vessels—the VLCC supertanker Jag Annapurna, which was carrying approximately 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil, and the Sanmar Herald — were among those forced westward out of the strait near Larak Island.

Shipping data indicated at least six other tankers halted or reversed course amid the chaos. No major casualties were reported, and crews remained safe, though the incident has threatened the tense ceasefire obtained between the United States and Iran.

The firing came as Iran’s military broadcast radio warnings to all ships declaring the Strait of Hormuz “completely closed again” due to alleged U.S. “piracy” and failure to honor commitments. This reversal directly contradicted Iran’s announcement on April 17 that the waterway would remain open during the truce.

Tehran had framed the brief reopening as a goodwill gesture tied to a U.S.-brokered ceasefire involving Israel and Lebanon, with its foreign minister stating passage was now unrestricted for commercial vessels. Yet within hours of that declaration, Iranian officials cited the ongoing U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports as a “violation” and moved to close the waterway once again.

Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf further warned the strait “will not remain open” if the blockade persists.

(more)
https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/india-summons-iranian-ambassador-after-serious-incident-in-strait-of-hormuz-cmc/

[Hoodat]

https://twitter.com/A_M_R_M1/status/2045676681411571889

[Hoodat]

https://twitter.com/BabakTaghvaee1/status/2045592553290919966

[BobfromWB]

 Live Update arrow right icon From the Liveblog of Sunday, April 19, 2026
Report: Iran still able to access around 70% of its pre-war missile stocks, 60% of launchers


US intelligence assessments have suggested that Iran likely still has access to around 70 percent of its pre-war ballistic missile stockpiles, and around 60 percent of its missile launchers, The New York Times reports [ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/iran-hormuz-strait-trump.html ].

It also still retains around 40% of its drone arsenal, the report says, citing US intelligence and military officials.

According to the Times, when a two-week ceasefire came into effect between Iran and the US on April 8, Tehran had access to around half of its ballistic missile launchers. Since then, the report says it has managed to dig out another 100 launchers from under the ground, bringing the total of operational missile launchers to around 60% of the pre-war total.


https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-iran-still-able-to-access-around-70-of-its-pre-war-missile-stocks-60-of-launchers/

[Timber Rattler]

https://twitter.com/A_M_R_M1/status/2045676681411571889

That was a fun run to watch!  Sal Mercogliano did a hilarious video yesterday covering it and the closure.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8eP2Oqps24

[Timber Rattler]

https://twitter.com/BabakTaghvaee1/status/2045592553290919966

So Trump and Hegseth is sending the Ford back, even though it is severely damaged and needs two years of repair work?  So what about the crew?

Hmmmm....

[Timber Rattler]

Since then, the report says it has managed to dig out another 100 launchers from under the ground, bringing the total of operational missile launchers to around 60% of the pre-war total.

Great job, Trump! 

Sucker.  Now the USAF has to go and hit them again!

[verga]

Let's not tell them anything, then go with Plan A where we bomb the shit out of the power plants and bridges.

[mystery-ak]

Deal With United States Is ‘Far Off’ Says Iran, as End of Ceasefire Looms

The strategic Strait of Hormuz was again closed on Sunday in the stand-off between Iran and the United States, with Iran’s powerful parliament speaker signalling a final peace deal remained “far” off despite some movement in negotiations.

As mediation efforts continued following high-level talks in Pakistan that failed to reach a deal, Iran said it will not allow the crucial maritime trade chokepoint to re-open until the United States ends a blockade of Iranian ports.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the Iranian parliament, said in a televised address on Saturday night that there had been “progress” with Washington “but there are many gaps and some fundamental points remain”.

“We are still far from the final discussion,” said Ghalibaf, one of Tehran’s negotiators in the talks aimed at ending the war launched by Israel and the United States against the Islamic republic.

A two-week ceasefire is set to end on Wednesday unless it is renewed.

more
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/04/19/deal-with-united-states-is-far-off-says-iran-as-end-of-ceasefire-looms/

[DCPatriot]

So Trump and Hegseth is sending the Ford back, even though it is severely damaged and needs two years of repair work?  So what about the crew?

Hmmmm....

    "...Trump and Hegseth ARE sending the Ford back...."

[BobfromWB]

Trump's inner circle rushes to emergency Situation Room briefing as Iran chokes off the world's oil supply

Trump finally figuring out that the Iranians have been lying to him?

After he manages to figure that out, difficult as seems for him, he needs to understand and grasp the concept that he has been negotiating with politicians who serve at the will of the Mullahs and their IRGC.

He will then have to negotiate with the real Iranian powers and not the pretenders. Sadly for 47, the real powers do not negotiate or, shockingly, make deals. Oh heavens to Betsy! No deals!!! How can 47 even function without deals?

[mystery-ak]

For the life of me I do not understand this obsession of making a deal with these thugs..we are the victors in this *war*...we should be telling them how it's gonna be..do it or suffer the consequences.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2045851468796768576

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2045850625552855129

[Idiot]

Live Update arrow right icon From the Liveblog of Sunday, April 19, 2026
Report: Iran still able to access around 70% of its pre-war missile stocks, 60% of launchers


US intelligence assessments have suggested that Iran likely still has access to around 70 percent of its pre-war ballistic missile stockpiles, and around 60 percent of its missile launchers, The New York Times reports [ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/politics/iran-hormuz-strait-trump.html ].

It also still retains around 40% of its drone arsenal, the report says, citing US intelligence and military officials.

According to the Times, when a two-week ceasefire came into effect between Iran and the US on April 8, Tehran had access to around half of its ballistic missile launchers. Since then, the report says it has managed to dig out another 100 launchers from under the ground, bringing the total of operational missile launchers to around 60% of the pre-war total.


https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-iran-still-able-to-access-around-70-of-its-pre-war-missile-stocks-60-of-launchers/

If the report is true we still have a ways to go in degrading their stockpiles.

[mystery-ak]

Trump mocks 'tough guy' IRGC after Tehran closes Strait of Hormuz, fires on ships

President Donald Trump lashed out at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps for closing the Strait of Hormuz once again on Sunday.

Trump made the statement in a post on Truth Social, mocking the IRGC for "helping us without knowing."

"Iran decided to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz — A Total Violation of our Ceasefire Agreement! Many of them were aimed at a French Ship, and a Freighter from the United Kingdom. That wasn’t nice, was it?" Trump wrote.

"My Representatives are going to Islamabad, Pakistan — They will be there tomorrow evening, for Negotiations. Iran recently announced that they were closing the Strait, which is strange, because our BLOCKADE has already closed it. They’re helping us without knowing, and they are the ones that lose with the closed passage, $500 Million Dollars a day! The United States loses nothing. In fact, many Ships are headed, right now, to the U.S., Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska, to load up, compliments of the IRGC, always wanting to be 'the tough guy!'" he continued.

"We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy and, if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years. IT’S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END!" he added.
Posted by Anders Hagstrom

[BobfromWB]

If the report is true we still have a ways to go in degrading their stockpiles.

The problem is that the missiles and launchers are under rock so hard and so deep that no bomb can penetrate. They have their own electricity and, presumably, CO2 scrubbers. The facilities dig from the inside out, while surface teams clear the rubble outside.

I find it best to remain realistic when it comes to a nation that for 47 years turned itself into a hardened fortification, planning for every contingency, using most of the nation's revenue to achieve that goal.

[BobfromWB]

Trump mocks 'tough guy' IRGC after Tehran closes Strait of Hormuz, fires on ships

President Donald Trump lashed out at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps for closing the Strait of Hormuz once again on Sunday.

Trump made the statement in a post on Truth Social, mocking the IRGC for "helping us without knowing."

"Iran decided to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz — A Total Violation of our Ceasefire Agreement! Many of them were aimed at a French Ship, and a Freighter from the United Kingdom. That wasn’t nice, was it?" Trump wrote.

"My Representatives are going to Islamabad, Pakistan — They will be there tomorrow evening, for Negotiations. Iran recently announced that they were closing the Strait, which is strange, because our BLOCKADE has already closed it. They’re helping us without knowing, and they are the ones that lose with the closed passage, $500 Million Dollars a day! The United States loses nothing. In fact, many Ships are headed, right now, to the U.S., Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska, to load up, compliments of the IRGC, always wanting to be 'the tough guy!'" he continued.

"We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy and, if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years. IT’S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END!" he added.
Posted by Anders Hagstrom

47 still has not caught on to the fact he's negotiating with the servants, not the masters.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2045859003985428646

[IsailedawayfromFR]

What this really says is no one is really fully in control of Iran. You can't make deals with people who can't enforce their own deals. Let the bombings commence to help organize things.

Actually, it reveals whoever we negotiated with is not in control of Iran.

[SZonian]

So Trump and Hegseth is sending the Ford back, even though it is severely damaged and needs two years of repair work?  So what about the crew?

Hmmmm....

" So what about the crew?"
What about them? They knew what they were signing up for.

When deployed, you're deployed for "the duration". If one is too soft to accept that, then maybe the military isn't a right fit.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2045864628773597666

[Wingnut]

https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2045850625552855129

And right on cue the left starts the "WAR CRIMES" chant! 

God love em.

[verga]

After he manages to figure that out, difficult as seems for him, he needs to understand and grasp the concept that he has been negotiating with politicians who serve at the will of the Mullahs and their IRGC.

He will then have to negotiate with the real Iranian powers and not the pretenders. Sadly for 47, the real powers do not negotiate or, shockingly, make deals. Oh heavens to Betsy! No deals!!! How can 47 even function without deals?

Not for nothing, but several of us have been saying right from the gitgo. islam is a fanatical cult, that want to see any and of all that oppose it dead.

[mystery-ak]

Trump points to fight between 'moderates' and 'crazies' in Iran, says peace talks will begin soon

President Donald Trump says there is an ongoing fight between "moderates" and "crazies" in Iran amid negotiations with the U.S.

Trump made the statement during an interview with Fox News' Trey Yingst on Sunday, saying Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff were departing for talks in the Middle East on Tuesday.

“If the deal isn’t done, the deal that we made, then I’m going to take out their bridges and their power plants," Trump said. “If they don’t sign this thing, the whole country is going to get blown up.”

“We’re preparing to hit them harder than any country has ever been hit before because you cannot let them have a nuclear weapon," he continued.

Trump went on to say that Iran has "agreed to much" of the deal already.
Posted by Anders Hagstrom