Iran says US blockade a 'breach of ceasefire conditions'

Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it is closing the Strait of Hormuz in response to America's continuing blockade.

Also on today's programme: in South Korea, there is a rise in the popularity of women authors giving feminists a new voice; and we take you back to the city of Pripyat, built for Chernobyl workers, for a love story that began on a dance floor and a wedding that went ahead just hours after the disaster.

Presenter Gary O'Donoghue is joined by Anton Spisak, a political economist and senior fellow at the Centre for European Reform, and Dalal Mawad, an award-winning Lebanese journalist and author of All She Lost.

(Photo: Ships and tankers in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Musandam, Oman, April 18, 2026. Credit: Reuters)