Headlines- On Monday at 14:00 GMT, the US military says it would start blockading Iranian ports, preventing ships from entering or leaving Iran from passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
- In the southern town of Biyyada, Hezbollah claims that its men have attacked Israeli soldiers with "a swarm of attack drones."
- US President Donald Trump's threat to block the Strait of Hormuz was deemed "ridiculous" by Iran's navy chief, Shahram Irani.
- Any military ships approaching the Strait of Hormuz "will be considered a violation of the ceasefire and will be met with severe force," according to a statement released on Sunday by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
- The speaker of Iran's parliament Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf is leading the delegation that has arrived to Pakistan for talks with the United States.
- Nawaf Salam, the prime minister of Lebanon, stated that he was working to ensure the withdrawal of Israeli forces and to put an end to the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
- The president of Lebanon announced on Friday that Israel and Lebanon would meet in Washington, D.C., next week to talk about a truce and begin talks.
- More than 180 Hezbollah fighters were killed in airstrikes the Israeli military carried out in Lebanon two days prior, the Israeli military claimed on Friday.
- Hezbollah claims to have bombed Israeli military positions in southern Lebanon's Tyre and Shamaa.
- More than 3,000 Iranians have died as a result of U.S.-Israeli attacks since February 28, Abbas Masjedi, the head of Iran's Forensic Medicine Organization, said Mizan, the official news agency of the Iranian judiciary, on Thursday.
Tag: China
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