NEW: It will remain difficult to determine whether the Middle East ceasefire conditions are being upheld, given the lack of agreed-upon, written ceasefire documents available to the public. (1/7)
2/ Hezbollah continues to attack Israeli forces and positions in northern Israel and southern Lebanon, while Israel continues to conduct airstrikes against Hezbollah. Iran, the United States, and Israel have not exchanged fire since ISW-CTP's last data cutoff on April 9. 3/ Every side is claiming compliance with the ceasefire while accusing the other of escalation, and it is impossible to determine which complaints are valid without a written, mutually-agreed-upon ceasefire document. 4/ Kuwaiti Armed Forces also announced that Iran conducted a drone attack that targeted several vital National Guard facilities, wounding personnel and causing significant material damage, on April 9. 5/ The US-Iran ceasefire negotiations are further complicated as the US delegation is negotiating with a committee of different Iranian factions that have divergent views on the negotiations. Some of these members are not even in positions that match the roles that they are supposedly playing. 6/ Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is leading the Iranian delegation set for negotiations in Islamabad – a responsibility more attuned for the Iranian president. 7/ Ghalibaf does not have control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and is reportedly feuding with IRGC Commander Ahmad Vahidi, who appears to have major influence in Iranian diplomatic decisions. ISW-CTP will provide further analysis on the ceasefire in its April 10 Iran Update. Read ISW-CTP's latest analysis about the war here: understandingwar.org.