Iranian gunboats fire on tanker after Strait of Hormuz closed again

Key Points:

• US President Donald Trump signed an executive order promoting research into the psychedelic ibogaine and warned that the US might not extend the ceasefire with Iran if negotiations fail by Wednesday, threatening to seize Iran's enriched uranium stockpile "in a much more unfriendly form."
• A French UN peacekeeper was killed and three wounded in southern Lebanon, with French President Macron blaming Hezbollah and demanding Lebanese authorities arrest those responsible amid ongoing tensions despite a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.
• The US has enforced a naval blockade on Iranian ports since April 13, forcing 23 vessels to turn around, while Iran briefly reopened the Strait of Hormuz for commercial shipping but then reimposed strict transit restrictions, reflecting internal divisions within Iran’s leadership over strategy toward the US.
• Regional foreign ministers from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt met to push for diplomatic solutions to the Middle East conflict, focusing on de-escalation, future regional order, and mitigating impacts on shipping, food, energy security, and oil prices.
• Trump claimed Iran had agreed to remove its enriched uranium stockpile to the US, a statement denied by Iranian officials who called it "alternative facts," emphasizing that uranium enrichment remains a major unresolved issue in US-Iran negotiations.