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Two U.S. Navy destroyers, the USS Frank E. Peterson and USS Michael Murphy, have transited the Strait of Hormuz and are now operating in the Persian Gulf to clear IRGC sea mines from the strait, according to CENTCOM.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that its forces started preparing to clear naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz, while two U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers conducted operations in the same area.
Masih Alinejad shared a video from six years ago expressing her joy over the arrest of Masoumeh Ebtekar's son in the United States. Alinejad states that she confronted Ebtekar outside the former Iranian embassy in response to Ebtekar's earlier comments about a girl.
A senior U.S. official informed Axios that several U.S. Navy vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on April 11, 2026, without coordination with Iran. This marks the first reported passage of U.S. warships through the strategic waterway since the conflict began.
Basijis and supporters of the Islamic Republic regime are commenting on social media posts criticizing @Babak Taghvaee for providing coordinates to strike their bases and requesting Israel to bomb checkpoints. Taghvaee responds by stating that given the regime's killing of over forty thousand people in December (Dey in the Persian calendar), his actions are justified.
Emmanuel Macron, President of France, told Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of Turkey, that any Iran ceasefire must extend to Lebanon and stressed the importance of reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Halting Israel's attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon is a precondition set by the Islamic Republic for initiating negotiations.
Mohammad Marandi, an official with the Islamic Republic's negotiating delegation in Pakistan, stated in Islamabad that no one will be deceived regarding the regime's control over the Strait of Hormuz.
A video published by Iranian state media features a pro-government cleric responding to the popular revolutionary chant "Until the mullah is shrouded in a burial cloth, this homeland won't truly be a homeland" by stating that after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death, "one mullah leaves and another mullah comes."
Eli Afriat tweeted that the operational methods of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Houthis, and other terrorist groups are similar, a realization he had on October 7th and now sees as applicable to an entire "axis of evil."
The Iranian regime delegation arrived in Pakistan to negotiate a ceasefire.
Opposition channels in Iran are highlighting that the current regime remains unchanged, continuing to be led by the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
During a press conference, an unnamed reporter asked what constitutes a good deal regarding Iran, to which the response was that eliminating nuclear weapons was the primary goal, though regime change was not intended. The speaker also mentioned that the Strait of Hormuz would soon reopen.
