An Iranian man waves the national flag as people gather in Tehran's Revolution Square after the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire, on April 8, 2026. (AFP)
US President Donald Trump speaks about the conflict in Iran in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington, DC. (AFP)
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 06, 2026 in Washington, DC. (AFP)
US President Donald Trump (R) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint press conference at Trumps Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on Dec. 29, 2025. (AFP)
Pope Leo XIV addresses the crowd from the window of the apostolic palace overlooking St. Peter's square during the Regina Caeli prayer in The Vatican on April 6, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 30, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
Smoke rises over Tehran following strikes on April 7, 2026, as fresh attacks hit the capital amid a looming US deadline over the Strait of Hormuz. (Photo: AFP)
Iran's domestically built missiles and satellite carriers are displayed in a permanent exhibition at a recreational area in northern Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP)
Iranian students form a human chain around the uranium‑conversion facility in Isfahan in November 2011 to show support for Iran’s nuclear program, in a symbolic demonstration of solidarity with the country’s nuclear ambitions.
Fire and thick plumes of smoke rise from a petrochemical complex in the industrial city of Jubail, eastern Saudi Arabia, following overnight attacks, April 7, 2026. (AFP)
US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he hosts the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 6, 2026, in Washington, DC. (AFP)
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., looks at his phone in the Rose Garden before President Donald Trump arrives on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, March 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP)
A picture of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hangs on the side of the road in the outskirts of Tehran, Iran, early Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP
In this July 21, 2019 file photo, an aerial view shows a speedboat of Iran's Revolutionary Guard moving around the British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero. (AP)
A woman holds Iran’s national flag while standing near a billboard with a sentence reading ‘The Strait of Hormuz remains closed’ at the Enqelab Square in Tehran, on April 5, 2026. (AFP)
Iranians attend the funeral of Alireza Tangsiri, commander of the IRG's navy killed in US-Israeli strikes on Iran at Enghelab Square in Tehran on April 1, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
the damage at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted Sayyid al-Shuhada complex in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut’s southern suburbs, on April 5, 2026. (Photo: AFP)
US President Donald Trump points after speaking at a televised address on the conflict in the Middle East from the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington, DC on April 1, 2026. (AFP)