Daily life unfolds across Tehran's cafes, parks and stores as people continue their everyday routines despite war. Some meet friends at cafes. Others play backgammon in a park, or walk their dogs.

Gen. Jack Keane says he is skeptical about the Iran ceasefire, warning Tehran has a track record of using negotiations to buy time and delay deals.

US President Donald Trump warned Iran over reports that it may charge fees from vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz ahead of upcoming peace talks in Pakistan. In a Truth Social post, Trump said,

Israel's military admitted on Tuesday to "collateral damage" taken by a synagogue in Tehran after Iran accused the country of destroying the place of worship.

An anonymous Iranian woman details to The Australian the nightly explosions, celebrations and fear in Tehran as Trump's two-week ceasefire with Iran tentatively took hold.

In a statement read out on television, Mojtaba Khamenei said Tehran will ‘demand compensation’ for war damages.

Fifteen residents of Tehran said in telephone interviews and text messages that the capital was weathering heavy bombardment.

President Donald Trump’s final Tuesday deadline for Iran to comply or face a far broader U.S. assault has now become the central pressure point in the war, with Tehran refusing

Iran’s illegal system of transit fees for the Strait of Hormuz could be formalised in any peace deal. The issue will form part of talks with the US scheduled to begin on Friday, following a two-week ceasefire that has theoretically opened up the strait to all vessels again.

We speak with two Iranian scholars ahead of an 8 p.m. ET deadline set by President Donald Trump for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face destruction of all its power plants, bridges and other civilian infrastructure.

Continued fighting in the Middle East, punctuated by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, threatened to derail the fragile US-Iran ceasefire even as the two sides signaled they could soon hold talks to end the six-week conflict.