Conflict Spot

⚡️DEVELOPING: Several people injured in explosion and fire at Aspen Aerogels manufacturing plant in East Providence, Rhode Island; fire department reports "multiple casualty incident".

⚡️The IRGC has just announced the establishment of a new shipping lane in the Strait of Hormuz This new shipping lane is closer to the Iranian coast The old shipping lane has been declared dangerous and may contain naval mines

⚡️No oil or gas tankers have transited the Strait of Hormuz since the ceasefire was struck yesterday, the four vessels that transited were carrying dry cargo - Kpler

⚡️President Trump issues a statement following his meeting with Secretary-General Rutte

⚡️JUST IN: North Korea said it has test-fired a tactical ballistic missile tipped with a cluster bomb warhead, claiming it can "reduce to ashes" any targeted areas with the highest-density power - Yonhap

⚡️WSJ: Officials in the Middle East believe there is a significant chance that war will flare up again, possibly with even greater intensity.

⚡️A couple of reliable Telegram channels are reporting the sounds of explosions in some parts of Iran. Faytuks Network cannot independently verify these reports at this moment.

⚡️A senior Vatican diplomat, Christophe Pierre, was reportedly summoned to the Pentagon and given a “bitter lecture” by Elbridge Colby, urging that Pope Leo “better take [the U.S.’s] side” and noting America can do “whatever it wants.” Source: The Free Press

⚡️Tapper: Is the world safer today than it was before the war was started? Rutte: Absolutely… thanks to President Trump's leadership.

⚡️Tapper: How many nato allied countries thought that the war that Trump and Israel waged against Iran was illegal? Do you think that's a prevalent view? Rutte: No no no no no no, because NATO has always taken the position that degrading these capabilities of nuclear and ballistic missiles is, is crucial.

⚡️Tapper: Do you agree that NATO countries, some of them, were tested and failed? Rutte: Some of them, yes.

⚡️Tapper: The WSJ is reporting that the president is weighing punishing some NATO allies for not being helpful to the U.S. And Israel during the war. Did the president talk about that at all today? Rutte: It was a very open discussion.

⚡️Tapper: Did the president say he was going to try to withdraw from NATO? Rutte: I also pointed him to the fact that it was his leadership which brought about The Hague spending commitment. It is a transformational legacy he leaves behind.

⚡️Senator Graham on Iran: It’s in their DNA to want to acquire a nuclear weapon.

⚡️Q: When Trump threatened to kill the entire Iranian civilization, did that bother you as a diplomat? Mark Rutte: I'm not commenting on everything. What I want you to know is I support Trump...

⚡️BREAKING: France President Macron tells Trump, Iran president ceasefire must include Lebanon

⚡️BREAKING: FBI has arrested former U.S. Special Operations Command employee for allegedly leaking classified information to the media.

⚡️Senior Iranian official Mohsen Rezaee: We stand with all our might alongside the Hezbollah mujahideen, and we will punish the Zionist enemy. The responsibility for the collapse of the ceasefire lies with America, which either does not want to or cannot leash its rabid dog. Violations of the ceasefire by America will also not be tolerated.

⚡️US may close at least one military base, possibly in Spain or Germany. Source: WSJ

⚡️JD Vance: Ghalibaf talked about an attack that had allegedly happened on Iran and how that was a violation of the ceasefire. Ceasefires are always messy. An hour after the president announced the ceasefire, the Iranians launched a bunch of missiles. Then the Israelis responded, then some of the Gulf Arab states responded. This is the nature of a ceasefire. No ceasefire ever goes without a little bit of choppiness.