IAEA says Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant lost off-site power for the 20th time today amid military conflict.

The Wall Street Journal reports the US and Qatar are drafting a plan to let Iran access part of roughly $100bn in frozen cash, starting with a $6bn tranche held by Qatar for humanitarian purchases. The proposal, not final, would allow Iran’s central bank to use extracted frozen assets—chiefly oil-export proceeds held abroad—to buy food, medicine and other humanitarian goods; the mechanism could be a template for other frozen cash pools and could serve as the first disbursement toward about $24bn Tehran is seeking to unfreeze under a recently signed end-of-war agreement.

Al Jazeera reported CENTCOM said Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz. A CENTCOM spokesman said US forces are monitoring the situation to ensure continued shipping through the waterway. Earlier the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had closed the Strait, citing continued Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon.