Iran's Foreign Minister is in Beijing today. He met with China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, and made a public statement about what Tehran will and will not accept in negotiations with Washington. His public statements from Beijing are on the record — we will walk through what he said and let listeners assess the gap. That is our top story. But it does not exist in isolation. Yesterday, Washington paused its own military escort operation in the Strait — and declared offensive operations against Iran over. Today's episode is about where both tracks, military and diplomatic, now stand.

The ceasefire broke overnight. US forces moved into the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, sinking Iranian boats and escorting commercial ships through. Iran struck the UAE. A frigate may or may not have been hit by missiles — Tehran says yes, Washington says no. The early April ceasefire, which had held for roughly three weeks, is now in serious question. We will cover all of it.

Iran's military warned this morning that any foreign armed forces entering the Strait of Hormuz will be attacked. The warning came within hours of President Trump announcing that the United States would begin escorting stranded vessels out of the Strait. Tehran called that escort mission a breach of the April 8th ceasefire. We'll have the full picture in today's top story — and we'll look at what this means for the stalled diplomatic track.

Iran submitted a 14-point peace proposal to mediator Pakistan over the weekend. President Trump says he'll review it — but he doesn't think it's acceptable, and he's warning that US strikes could resume. That tension, between a formal diplomatic document and an American president signaling doubt before he's finished reading it, is the story today. We'll break down what Iran is actually proposing, how Washington is responding, and what it means for a ceasefire that has held since April 8th but shows signs of strain.

Friday marked sixty days since President Trump notified Congress of the start of hostilities with Iran — the deadline set by the War Powers Resolution for securing congressional authorization to continue military action. Trump's response: the law doesn't apply, because the war is over. That claim is now being contested on multiple fronts — legal, legislative, and military. We'll break down all three positions, who's making them, and what's corroborated, coming up.

Iran's Supreme Leader declared Thursday that the United States has been defeated. At the same moment, President Trump signaled that strikes could resume. Those two statements, made on the same day, capture the central tension in today's reporting — and oil markets reacted to both. France 24 reported Brent crude briefly surpassed $126 per barrel on Thursday. We'll explain what's driving that, and what it means for Americans at the pump.

Iran's football delegation turned back from Toronto today — blocked at the airport before a scheduled FIFA Congress appearance. That story involves Iran's football chief, a diplomatic dispute with Canada, and questions about who exactly was in the delegation. We'll have the full picture later. First, the broader picture of where things stand on day one of the final month of what has been two months of war.

Iran's rial hit a record low today. The US dollar crossed 1.81 million rials on the open market — a rise of nearly eight percent in a single day. On the same day, President Trump posted on Truth Social warning that Iran "better get smart soon" and that it "can't get their act together" regarding what he called a non-nuclear deal. Here is what we know about both developments.

Iran's Foreign Minister met with Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg on Monday. The meeting came as Tehran proposed shelving its nuclear program in diplomatic talks — not eliminating it, but setting it aside — until the war ends and the Strait of Hormuz dispute is resolved. Washington's position remains that nuclear concessions come first. Those two positions are now on the table at the same time. Here's what happened, and what it means.

Iran's foreign minister is on the move — and the travel pattern tells a story. Abbas Araghchi has been to Oman, back to Pakistan, and is now in Moscow, where Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet with him today. At the same time, Axios is reporting that Iran sent a formal ceasefire proposal to Washington through Pakistani intermediaries. We'll have both stories — and what they suggest about who is talking to whom — coming up.