NPR News: 04-08-2026 6PM EDT
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. |
| 0:04.3 | Iran says it is reclosing the Strait of Hormuz, less than 24 hours after the conditional ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran went into effect. |
| 0:12.6 | Only a trickle of ships were able to pass through the vital waterway that normally carries about a fifth of the world's energy supplies. |
| 0:19.7 | NPR's Jackie Northam reports. |
| 0:21.5 | Despite being anchored since the start of the war more than a month ago, |
| 0:24.9 | hundreds of ships were not eager to transit the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:28.6 | The big concern is safety. There were still regional attacks. |
| 0:32.5 | It's uncertain if Iran has cleared mines in the water and a threat broadcast to the ships from Iran itself. |
| 0:38.7 | If any vessels try to transit, without permission will be destroyed out. |
| 0:45.9 | The White House says the president is aware of reports that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz and disputes them, |
| 0:51.4 | while also saying that would be completely unacceptable. |
| 0:55.1 | Jackie Northam, NPR News. |
| 0:57.4 | Israel says the ceasefire does not apply to Hezbollah in Lebanon, where more than a million |
| 1:02.2 | people have been displaced. |
| 1:04.0 | Israel's military said today that it carried out airstrikes on more than 100 targets in |
| 1:08.3 | Lebanon in about 10 minutes. |
| 1:10.0 | NPR's Lauren Frilares in Beirut. |
| 1:11.8 | Lebanon's health minister says hundreds are dead and injured. |
| 1:15.7 | The Red Cross says 100 ambulances are out in Beirut alone trying to rescue people. |
| 1:20.3 | Hospitals are asking for blood donations. |
| 1:23.0 | Israel issued fresh evacuation orders for areas in Beirut's southern suburbs this morning, but not for |
| 1:29.7 | areas in central Beirut, where I am. A posh area along Beirut's Corniche waterfront was struck |
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