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JUST IN: Oil tanker bound for China reportedly forced to turn around due to the U.S. naval blockade, per ship tracking data.

BREAKING | The US Naval Blockade is now operationally. Centcom says the blockade encompasses "the entirety of the Iranian coastline", including but "not limited to" Iranian ports and oil terminals. It will apply to vessels from all nations. It adds that humanitarian shipments such as food and medical supplies would be allowed, subject to inspection. Centcom warns that vessels "entering or departing the blockaded area without authorization is subject to interception, diversion, and capture".

Chinese Defense Minister Admiral Dong Jun: "We have trade and energy agreements with Iran; we expect others not to interfere in our affairs. The Strait of Hormuz is open to us." China is issuing a warning to the US.

Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting: "I spoke yesterday with Vice President J.D. Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the development of the negotiations. In this case, the explosion in the negotiations. The explosion came from the American side, which could not tolerate Iran's blatant violation of the agreement to enter the negotiations. The agreement was that they would cease fire, and the Iranians would immediately open the gates. They did not do that. The Americans could not accept that. He also made it clear to me that the main issue on the agenda for President Trump and the United States is the removal of all enriched material, and ensuring that there is no more enrichment in the coming years, and that could be in decades, no enrichment within Iran. That is their focus, and of course it is also important to us."