Live updates: Iran threatens shipping in Gulf and Red Sea

In-person talks between the U.S. and Iran could resume as early as this week, two people familiar with the negotiations told NBC News. President Donald Trump said the war was “very close to over.”

Iranian officials are set on April 16 to meet with Pakistani mediators to discuss new US proposals and decide on a possible second round of talks a day after US President Donald Trump asserted that the end of the war could come “very soon.”

  • Iranian officials are set on April 16 to meet with Pakistani mediators to discuss new US proposals and decide on a possible second round of talks a day after US President Donald Trump asserted that the end of the war could come “very soon.”
  • A majority of the Republican-controlled ⁠US Senate voted to block a Democratic-led resolution aiming to stop the war in Iran until attacks authorized by Congress.
  • The United States has not requested a Lebanon cease-fire, but President Donald Trump would welcome an end to the war in which Israel is targeting Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, a senior US administration official said on April 15.
  • A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps warned that the US blockade’s continuation would constitute a “violation of the cease-fire.”

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