US-Iran war live updates: Iran seizes two ships in Strait of Hormuz; Trump awaits unified proposal from Islamic Republic after ceasefire extension

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US President Donald Trump extended the ceasefire in Iran indefinitely amid an impasse over his blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian state television reported Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard had seized two ships – identified as the MSC Francesca and the Epaminondas – after three vessels were attacked in the strait.
The White House said Iran’s apparent seizure of the two ships was not a violation of the ceasefire because they were not American or Israeli vessels. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Iran was “acting like a bunch of pirates”.
US Navy Secretary John Phelan was fired, a source familiar with the matter said, in another wartime shakeup at the Pentagon coming just weeks after Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth ousted the US Army’s top general.
Iran’s parliament speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf said reopening the strait was impossible while the US naval blockade remained, labelling it a “flagrant breach of the ceasefire”.
On the eve of talks in Washington between Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors on Thursday, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Beirut would seek an extension of the 10-day, US-mediated ceasefire, which is set to expire on Sunday.