White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett stated that Iran "seems they're making a lot of progress now," referring to the 2025-2026 Iranian revolution.
Bahrain's Interior Minister announced the arrest of individuals with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the ideology of the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist, stating these arrests were part of a "comprehensive security and legal review" following "Iran's blatant transgression."
According to a report by the prosecutor, Mohammad Reza Miri, a 21-year-old worker who had recently completed his military service, was executed in Mashhad on Sunday, April 13, 2025, after informing his family by phone. Miri was one of three protesters arrested during the December 2024 protests and was sentenced to death along with Ebrahim Dolat-abadie and Mahdi Rasouli for charges including "waging war against God" and "participating in the killing of a law enforcement officer."
On Truth Social, former US President Trump announced that based on requests from Pakistan and other countries, and due to the military success against the Islamic Republic of Iran, the naval blockade will continue but "Operation Freedom" in the Strait of Hormuz will be temporarily suspended to assess the possibility of a final agreement with Tehran.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, imprisoned in Iran since her arrest in Azar 1404 (December 2025), is in critical condition after being hospitalized in the cardiac intensive care unit of a hospital in Zanjan for five days, according to her lawyer Shirin Ardakani, who announced that Mohammadi is "between death and life" following two heart attacks.
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett on Iran: "It seems they're making a lot of progress now."
