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Libby Casey· Host0:15

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Libby Casey. US Central Command has confirmed it will resume a naval blockade of Iran tomorrow. NPR's Quil Lawrence reports it would be the latest act of war to undermine the ceasefire between the two countries.

Quil Lawrence0:30

CENTCOM announced it will enforce President Trump's order of a maritime blockade on all traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports and coastal areas. The US military will protect ship traffic passing through the Strait of Hormuz that doesn't violate the blockade. But the president posted on social media that the US would begin charging a twenty percent fee on cargo that it protects. Tit-for-tat strikes by the US on Iranian targets and by Iran on US Gulf allies have intensified, and the president has alternately said the ceasefire is over, but then said that negotiations continue for a lasting peace deal. Before the US and Israel attacked Iran in February, tanker traffic moved freely through the strait, supplying twenty percent of the world's oil and other important commodities. Quil Lawrence, NPR News.

Libby Casey· Host1:16

An officer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement shot and killed a man in Maine today. Immigrants' rights groups have identified the man shot as a twenty-six-year-old native of Colombia. He was not the target of the warrant that ICE