The United States has released a video it said shows its forces boarding what it called a sanctioned, stateless tanker carrying Iranian oil in the Indian Ocean, while Iran has aired video of its commandos storming a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, tightening its grip over the strategic waterway after the collapse of peace talks.
Iranian state television broadcast footage of masked troops pulling up in a speedboat alongside the MSC Francesca, climbing a rope ladder to a door in the hull and jumping through carrying rifles.
The footage, presented with an action-film-style soundtrack and no commentary, also included views of another ship, the Epaminondas.
Iran claimed to have captured both vessels yesterday, accusing them of trying to cross the strait without permits.
Watch: Video purports to show Iranian commandos seizing a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday
Parliament vice speaker Hamidreza Hajibabaei said the first revenue from a toll that the country was collecting from ships using the waterway had been transferred to the central bank's account.
He gave no further detail about who had paid it, when or how much.
Iran's chief justice Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei said the merchant vessels attacked in the strait had "faced the law".
Iranian speedboats and marine drones were sheltering in caves off an island near the mouth of the waterway and keeping the US Navy from approaching.
Iran, which has effectively blocked the Strait of Hormuz to ships apart from its own since the US and Israel started the war in February, has been left in apparent control of the waterway since last-ditch peace talks were called off on Tuesday, hours before a two-week ceasefire expired.
Iran has said that it will not consider opening the strait, normally the route for one-fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas, until the US lifts a blockade of Iranian shipping, which Washington imposed during the ceasefire and Tehran calls a violation of that truce.
Trump orders navy to 'shoot and kill' boats in strait as US forces board tanker in Indian Ocean
The US, which has been confronting Iranian ships in international waters to enforce a blockade of its own, said it had boarded another tanker, the Majestic, in the Indian Ocean, an apparent reference to a supertanker last reported off the coast of Sri Lanka carrying two million barrels of crude.
In a post on X, the US Department of Defense said the vessel was tracked to the Indian Ocean and ship tracking data from today shows the ship in the Indian Ocean.
The Department of Defense said in a post that the operation occurred "overnight".
News agency Reuters confirmed the identity of the tanker confirmed as Majestic X by its shape, structures, cranes and paintwork, which matched file imagery of the vessel.
Watch: US releases video it says shows forces boarding tanker carrying Iranian oil
US President Donald Trump cancelled threats to restart attacks on Iran in the ceasefire's final hours on Tuesday, but has refused to lift the blockade.
There has been no formal extension of the truce, and no plans have been announced for further talks.
In a post on social media, Mr Trump said - without providing any evidence - that the US had "total control" over the Strait of Hormuz, and that it was "sealed up tight" until Iran made a deal.
In a previous post, Mr Trump said he had ordered the US Navy to "shoot and kill" any boat that was laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
"There is to be no hesitation. Additionally, our mine 'sweepers' are clearing the Strait right now," he said.
Trump says US will not use nuclear weapon in Iran war
Mr Trump also said that he would not use a nuclear weapon in the war against Iran.
"Why would I use a nuclear weapon? We've totally, in a very conventional way, decimated them without it," he told reporters at the White House when asked whether he would use such a weapon.
"No, I wouldn't use it. A nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody," he added.
Asked how long he was willing to wait for a long-term peace deal with Iran, Mr Trump said, "Don't rush me".
He said Iran might have loaded up their weaponry "a little bit" during the two-week ceasefire, but added that the US military could knock that out in about one day.
"Their navy is gone. Their air force is gone, their anti-aircraft is gone ... maybe they loaded up a little bit during the two-week hiatus, but we'll knock that out about one day, if they did," Mr Trump added.
"I want to make the best deal. I could make a deal right now ... but I don't want to do that. I want to have it everlasting."
Israel 'awaiting green light from US' for further Iran attacks
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz, meanwhile, said that Israel was "prepared to resume the war against Iran", adding that his country was awaiting a green light from the United States to return Iran to "the Stone Age".
"The IDF is ready both defensively and offensively, and the targets have been marked," Mr Katz said in a video statement.
"We are awaiting a green light from the United States - first and foremost to complete the elimination of the Khamenei dynasty... and additionally to return Iran to the Dark Age and the Stone Age by destroying key energy and electricity facilities and dismantling its national economic infrastructure," he said.
Iranians, who endured six weeks of US and Israeli bombardment before the ceasefire began on 8 April, described a nerve-wracking environment under the threat of renewed warfare.
Pakistan still in touch with both sides after talks cancelled
Pakistan, which hosted the only peace talks of the war earlier this month and had been preparing for a second round before they were called off on Tuesday, is still in touch with both sides, a Pakistani government source said.
They said that Iranian officials were still declining to commit to sending a delegation, citing the US blockade and other reasons.
"Yesterday, diplomats from various countries met different Pakistani authorities and asked about the expected dates for the next round of talks, but they could not give them any timeframe, clearly," the source added.
Iran has said publicly that it is willing to talk in principle but the blockade and inconsistent demands from Washington made it impossible to commit.
"You did not achieve your goals through military aggression and you will not achieve them by bullying either," Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, who is head of Iran's negotiating team, wrote on social media.
"The only way is recognising the Iranian people's rights."
Separately, Mr Trump has said that ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel has been extended for three weeks after a high-level meeting at the White House.
