"The Kiel Institute estimates a full Hormuz closure could push global wheat prices up 4.2% and fruit and vegetable prices up 5.2%, with the worst impact falling on Zambia (31% food price increase), Sri Lanka (15%), Taiwan (12%), and Pakistan (11%)."

"United States President Donald Trump has said Tehran does not have to make a deal for him to end the war, adding that the conflict could end in two to three weeks, but Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said he has no faith in talks with Washington."

"The BBC offered yet another lens — not battlefield, but kitchen table — reporting from London that Brent crude briefly hit $119 a barrel on Tuesday and that UK petrol reached 152.8p per litre, its highest in two years."

"Between those two statements sits the entire architecture of a conflict that has killed more than 2,000 Iranians, driven Brent crude past $119 a barrel, and stranded nearly 20,000 merchant sailors in the Persian Gulf."

"The United States has achieved such unchallenged control of Iran's skies that it is flying B-52 bombers directly over Iranian territory for the first time since the war began, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters at a Pentagon briefing on Tuesday."

"The Israeli military said in a statement late in the day that it had struck the Tofigh Daru factory, claiming the facility was secretly supplying a potentially deadly drug to the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research of Iran, which Israel says is responsible for developing chemical weapons."

"Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz has thrown the global economic system into turmoil, yet Israel, which launched attacks on Tehran alongside the United States, has emerged as a rare exception."

"The BBC's separate supply-chain analysis warned that the Strait of Hormuz closure threatens not just energy but fertiliser shipments — roughly a third of the global total — at the worst possible time, during the northern hemisphere's planting season."

"House Republicans have scheduled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's first public testimony for 29 April — exactly Day 60."

"Jensen warned that the impact of the US-Israeli war on Iran could be 「substantially larger」 than the oil crisis of the 1970s."