The Hormuz Report

BREAKING: Donald Trump now gives Qatar just two weeks to prevent a massive U.S. strike on Iran, per The Jerusalem Post and French diplomatic sources.

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani made an unscheduled appearance at the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Paris after flying directly from the White House, where he held talks with Trump.

Al Thani warned G7 ministers that major differences remain between Washington and Tehran:

“Significant differences remain between the United States and Iran.”

He briefed European powers and Saudi Arabia on the state of negotiations.

BREAKING: Iran and Russia held urgent talks on Tuesday to directly counter the U.S. Navy’s newly launched “Iron Gate” operation, with Tehran warning that Moscow and Tehran will coordinate against Washington’s any efforts to disrupt Iranian trade routes through the Caspian Sea, per IRNA and Tasnim.

Iran’s Deputy FM Gharibabadi said he met with Russia’s ambassador to Tehran to discuss “how to counter unilateral U.S. actions” and the “Iron Gate plan.”

“Both countries would directly coordinate against common threats.” Gharibabadi added.

BREAKING: Iran appears to have reverse-engineered the $1.4 million U.S. AGM-158 JASSM stealth cruise missile, with the IRGC unveiling a visually identical, reportedly cloned weapon inside a newly revealed underground “missile city,” per Tasnim News.

The development follows reports that Iran recovered a largely intact JASSM after it failed to detonate during the conflict as the U.S. forces reportedly fired around 1,100 JASSM variants during the war.

The stealth cruise missile can strike targets from over 575 miles away, carries a 1,000-pound penetrating warhead, and uses GPS-aided navigation and an imaging infrared seeker to evade defenses and achieve an accuracy of approximately 3 meters (10 feet).

The missile’s identifying details were blurred in the footage.

BREAKING: Iran now announces the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the United States meets Tehran’s seven conditions, with SNSC Secretary Mohsen Rezaei warning that Washington must provide a clear and explicit response before the waterway can reopen, per IRNA.

Rezaei also dismissed reports of ongoing negotiations or a planned meeting in Qatar as “pure lies,” saying they were intended to push oil prices down and market manipulation by the Trump administration.

BREAKING: CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton briefed the congressional “Gang of Eight” on highly classified Iran war plans today, in a closed-door session on Capitol Hill, per congressional sources cited by Reuters.

“The briefing was primarily about Iran,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries confirmed afterward. The briefing comes as the Trump administration weighs whether to resume strikes against Iran following the midterm elections and ongoing diplomatic efforts.

The last reported emergency briefing took place on February 24, just four days before U.S. and Israeli attacks against Iran began.