President Trump says US Navy will begin blockade of Strait of Hormuz
The U.S. and Iran failed to reach a peace deal after 21 hours of negotiations.
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military and government sites.
Trump set a deadline for Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face broad strikes on its critical infrastructure. Hours before the deadline expired, Trump said he had agreed to suspend planned bombing for two weeks if Iran agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi then said that "safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran's Armed Forces and with due consideration of technical limitations."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he supported the ceasefire with Iran, but that Lebanon -- where intense Israeli strikes continued -- was not covered by the agreement, despite Iranian protests.
Key Headlines
- US blockade of Iranian ports to begin Monday, CENTCOM says
- Military vessels approaching Strait of Hormuz 'will be met with severe force,' IRGC says
- DOJ will 'vigorously prosecute' buyers or sellers of sanctioned Iranian oil, Blanche says
- Despite blockade announcement, Trump urges Iran to open Strait of Hormuz
- President Trump says US Navy will begin blockade of Strait of Hormuz
Tehran synagogue 'completely destroyed' by strikes, Iran media says
A synagogue in Tehran was "completely destroyed" in U.S.-Israeli strikes overnight, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported on Tuesday.
Located in central Tehran, Rafi-Nia Synagogue served as a religious center for the city's Jewish community, the semi-official ISNA News Agency reported.
The attacks were condemned by Homayoun Sameh Najafabadi, the representative of the Jewish community in Iran's parliament, according to IRNA. He said that carrying out the strikes during the Passover holiday showed that Israel had an "anti-religious attitude."
"At the beginning of the attack on our country, Trump claimed that he was carrying out these strikes in support of the people. But later, most of those who were martyred, injured, or disabled by the United States and Israel were these same people," Najafabadi said.
-ABC News' Somayeh Malekian
IDF announces wave of strikes on Iran infrastructure
The Israel Defense Forces said in a post to X on Tuesday that it "completed a wide-scale wave of strikes targeting dozens of infrastructure sites" in several areas of Iran.
Iranian minister calls for human chains around power plants
Iran's Deputy Minister of Sports and Youth Alireza Rahimi invited people to form human chains around the country's power plants in a video message published on Monday, according to the government's Telegram channel.
Rahimi called on young people, artists, athletes, students and professors to join the initiative -- which he described as a "symbolic move" -- on Tuesday at 2 p.m. local time (6:30 a.m. ET), regardless of their political views, to protect infrastructure he referred to as "national assets that belong to the future of Iran and its young people."
The invitation came as President Donald Trump's Tuesday evening deadline for Iran to fully re-open the Strait of Hormuz approached. Trump has threatened to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure -- including power plants and bridges -- if Tehran does not comply.
Israeli attacks on Iranian infrastructure, meanwhile, have intensified across the country.
-ABC News' Somayeh Malekian and Joe Simonetti
UNIFIL releases photos of HQ damage, alleged camera targeting by Israel
Photos provided by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon to ABC News on Tuesday showed recent damage to the force's headquarters in Naquora, southern Lebanon, amid fighting between Israeli forces and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group.
In particular, some of the images show security cameras outside the headquarters that UNIFIL says Israeli soldiers intentionally destroyed last week.
Kandice Ardiel, spokesperson for UNIFIL, said in posts to X last week that the force "expressed our serious concern about this to the Israel Defense Forces and will formally protest their actions. We remind them of their obligation to ensure the safety and security of United Nations personnel and to respect the inviolability of UN premises."
-ABC News' Morgan Winsor