U.S.-Iran Ceasefire on Shaky Ground Amid Continued Attacks
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we're going to start with breaking news in our world lead. |
| 0:08.0 | The two-week ceasefire between the U.S., Israel, and Iran launched last night that the Vice President calls fragile. |
| 0:17.0 | Today, Iranian state media reports that Iran has stopped oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, despite having agreed to open the strait. |
| 0:25.6 | That's because Iran says after the ceasefire went into effect yesterday, Israel began carrying out what that country calls the largest strikes on Lebanon since the start of the war. |
| 0:36.6 | Israel is going after an Iranian-backed militia in Lebanon, |
| 0:40.0 | one called Hezbollah. |
| 0:41.7 | President Trump told PBS that the strikes in Lebanon |
| 0:44.4 | are a separate skirmish and that Lebanon was not |
| 0:47.8 | included in the two-week ceasefire. |
| 0:49.7 | Iran disagrees. |
| 0:51.9 | White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt was asked today about the reports |
| 0:55.0 | that the Straits of Hormuz remain closed. |
| 0:58.0 | The President was made aware of those reports before I came to the podium. |
| 1:03.0 | That is completely unacceptable. We have seen an uptick of traffic in the strait today. |
| 1:08.0 | And I will reiterate the President's expectation and demand that the |
| 1:12.1 | Strait of Hermuse is reopened immediately, quickly, and safely. That is his expectation. It has |
| 1:18.6 | been relayed to him privately that that is what's taking place and these reports publicly are |
| 1:23.4 | false. |
| 1:24.4 | The White House said that negotiations will continue over these next two weeks as long as the |
| 1:29.0 | Strait of Hormuz remains open. |
| 1:30.6 | There are lots of questions that remain over the terms of the ceasefire and what comes next. |
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