Reports from Iranian state media say the Strait of Hormuz is not open because Iran is responding to the continued Israeli airstrikes into Lebanon. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire agreement that has been brokered.

The strait is a 100-mile-long waterway that connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. Some 20% of the world’s oil and natural gas supply passes through the narrow channel. Since the launch of the war on Feb.

Iran, the United States and Israel agreed to a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday, an 11th-hour deal that headed off U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to unleash a bombing campaign that would destroy Iranian civilization.

Iran stopped oil tanker traffic through the crucial waterway after Israel attacked Lebanon. Both President Donald Trump and Iran have portrayed the last-minute ceasefire deal as a victory for their nations.

A tenuous cease-fire between the U.S. and Iran brought crude futures sharply lower on Wednesday and shifted focus to the likely slow work of reopening the Strait of Hormuz, whose closure has stranded hundreds of ships,

More confusion ensues as the White House insists the Strait of Hormuz must stay open but Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say shipping there has stopped. Follow for live updates.

A cease-fire deal to pause the war in Iran appears to be hanging by a thread after the Islamic Republic closed the Strait of Hormuz again in response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon

President Trump and Iran sent mixed messages ahead of his Tuesday deadline. Early Tuesday, Israel said it had detected missiles launching from Iran and the Iranian Red Crescent Society said a residential area of Tehran had been hit in an airstrike.