Iran touts video of purported ship seizures as Trump quiet on next move

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has released dramatically-edited video of what it claims to beryllium its forces boarding and seizing 2 of 3 commercialized vessels intercepted successful the Strait of Hormuz connected Wednesday.

The U.K. military's Maritime Trade Operations Center (UKMTO) reported incidents involving 3 cargo ships successful the contested waterway, portion the IRGC claimed to person seized 2 of them.

The strait, a captious conduit for planetary vigor supplies, has been mostly blocked for much than 7 weeks owed to Iran's menace to ship, which it lifted concisely but past reimposed aft President Trump imposed a U.S. subject blockade of Iranian ports and ships. Both sides person been intercepting vessels successful tit-for-tat brinkmanship successful the run-up to a imaginable 2nd circular of nonstop bid talks successful Pakistan.

In the IRGC video posted Wednesday, masked fighters velocity toward the colossal instrumentality vessel MSC-Francesca successful a weapon vessel and ascent a ladder – rifles slung implicit their backs – up its hull.

An representation taken from video posted online by Iran's state-run Press TV web connected April 23, 2026, shows what the outlet said were Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces boarding the instrumentality vessel MSC-Francesca to prehend the vas successful the Strait of Hormuz the erstwhile day. CBS News has not independently verified the video. Iranian authorities media

The video past shows different alleged "fast-boat" laden with soldiers approaching the cargo vessel Epaminodes, followed by clips of IRGC fighters connected committee a ship, opening a doorway and walking up stairs, rifles raised, though it is not wide which vas they are on.

Earlier successful the week, the U.S. military's Central Command released 2 videos of American forces intercepting an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel successful the portion arsenic portion of its blockade.

 Ambassadors from Israel and Lebanon are set to conscionable successful Washington connected Thursday to clasp a 2nd circular of bid talks, with their tenuous 10-day ceasefire presently owed to expire implicit the weekend.

The Israeli service and Iran-backed militia Hezbollah person accused each different of breaching the truce astir since it began. The Lebanese nationalist quality bureau reported Wednesday that Israeli strikes had killed 2 people, adding to the much than 2,000 killed by Israel since aboriginal March, according to wellness authorities.

Israeli officials accidental Hezbollah has killed 23 radical since the IDF battle connected the radical intensified successful tandem with the warfare successful Iran.

The archetypal U.S.-brokered ceasefire began connected April 16 astatine 1700ET.

The assemblage of a Lebanese writer killed successful an Israeli airstrike connected confederate Lebanon connected Wednesday has been pulled from nether the rubble hours aft the attack.

The regular Al-Akhbar paper confirmed that its reporter, Amal Khalil, was killed successful the onslaught connected the confederate colony of al-Tiri.

Information Minister Paul Morcos besides confirmed Khalil's death.

Khalil had been covering the Israel-Hezbollah warfare since it started successful October 2023 and had been reporting from antithetic parts of confederate Lebanon connected the hostilities.

Earlier connected Wednesday, Reporters Without Borders, oregon RSF, called connected the planetary assemblage to instantly unit the Israeli service to let the rescue of Khalil.

Navy Secretary John Phelan is leaving his relation effectual immediately, main Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said Wednesday.

The Navy's caller acting civilian person volition beryllium Undersecretary of the Navy Hung Cao, according to Parnell. Cao is simply a Navy seasoned who ran for Senate successful 2024 arsenic the GOP's nominee successful Virginia, losing to Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine.

The Department of the Navy — which oversees naval forces and the Marine Corps — is losing its apical civilian authoritative portion the Navy plays a cardinal relation successful the warfare with Iran. 

A impermanent ceasefire betwixt the U.S. and Iran has been successful spot for astir 2 weeks, but the U.S. has continued enforcing a naval blockade connected Iranian ports astatine President Trump's direction. The president and different medication officials person besides suggested that the Navy could connection escorts to lipid tankers successful the Strait of Hormuz astatine immoderate point.

Phelan is the latest high-profile authoritative to depart the national authorities successful caller months.

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