Lauren Freyer
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You know, more than a million people have been displaced already by this Israeli invasion.
The capital has swelled with a lot of those people, and now they're in danger here.
We spoke with Zainab Ain.
She's an 18-year-old college student from the south sheltering in Beirut.
She stayed up late at night for that ceasefire announcement.
Sure, it would mean attacks would stop and she'd return to her studies.
She says hopefully Iran will do something, you know, stick up for Lebanon.
And that's what Iran says this closure of the Strait of Hormuz is about.
It's Iran's response to these Israeli attacks against its proxy here in Lebanon, Hezbollah.
Yeah, so oil is still at around $100 a barrel.
That's about a third higher than before this war began.
The U.S.-Iran ceasefire is supposed to sort of formalize a system of charging fees for ships to pass through that waterway.
Some countries don't want that.
You know, the British foreign secretary called today for the strait to go back to where it was before, a toll-free international waterway.
But Iran has control now and wants to keep that.
Yeah, that's in Pakistan.
Vice President J.D.
Vance is going to that.
Iran has threatened to cancel those talks, though, because of these attacks on Lebanon.
Vance said yesterday that Israel has offered to, quote, check themselves a little bit in Lebanon to make sure those talks are successful.