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Iran has rejected the latest ceasefire connection and wants a imperishable extremity to the war, the state-run IRNA quality bureau said Monday.
The effect comes arsenic U.S. President Donald Trump’s deadline looms — Tuesday nighttime Washington clip — for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with the president threatening to deed Iran’s powerfulness plants and different infrastructure targets.
Israel and the United States carried retired a question of attacks connected Iran connected Monday, sidesplitting much than 25 people. Iran responded with rocket occurrence connected Israel and its Gulf Arab neighbors.
Israel attacked the South Pars petrochemical works astatine Asaluyeh successful Iran, according to Israel's defence minister. An Israeli onslaught connected South Pars facilities past period sparked large Iranian attacks targeting lipid and state infrastructure crossed the Gulf Arab states.
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Trump threatens to jailhouse writer who archetypal reported connected downed airman
Trump threatened to jailhouse the writer who archetypal reported that U.S. forces were searching for an F-15 weapons serviceman changeable down successful Iran, if they don’t uncover their sources.
“The idiosyncratic that did the communicative volition spell to jailhouse if helium doesn’t say, and that doesn’t past long,” Trump said.
Trump didn’t sanction the writer oregon quality organization. He said the leak tipped disconnected the Iranians, endangering the serviceman and his rescuers. He called the leaker “a sick person.”
Iran’s ultimate person issues a uncommon nationalist statement
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei expressed condolences implicit the sidesplitting of the Revolutionary Guard’s quality chief.
In a written societal media post, Khamenei said Maj. Gen. Majid Khademi joined a “steadfast enactment of warriors and fighters” to sacrifice their lives. Israeli strikes person killed dozens of apical Iranian leaders, including Khamenei’s father.
The younger Khamenei has not been seen oregon spoken successful nationalist since helium succeeded his begetter arsenic ultimate leader.
Trump offers much details of melodramatic airman rescue
The president described the standard of the cognition undertaken by the U.S. to rescue the 2nd airman from the downed craft — which included 155 aircraft.
More specifically, it included 4 bombers, 64 fighters, 48 refueling tankers, and 13 rescue aircraft, among others, Trump said.
Much of it was an effort to propulsion disconnected the Iranians, who were besides looking for the missing unit member, the president said.
“We were bringing them each implicit and a batch of it was subterfuge,” Trump said. “We wanted to person them deliberation helium was successful a antithetic location.”
Trump says downed serviceman rushed to get distant from the clang site
Trump says the downed weapons serviceman followed his grooming to get arsenic acold distant from the clang tract arsenic possible.
When a level crashes successful hostile territory, “they each caput close to that site, you privation to beryllium arsenic acold distant arsenic you can,” Trump said.
Trump says the serviceman was “bleeding profusely” but was capable ascent mountainous terrain and interaction U.S. forces to pass his location. Rescuers mobilized a monolithic effect that included subterfuge to confuse the Iranians astir wherever they were looking.
Trump says 21 craft came to assistance rescue airmen who crashed successful Iran
The president began describing the rescue efforts from Friday and implicit the play aft 2 airmen ejected and landed live “deep successful force territory” successful Iran.
Trump said 21 craft were deployed to assistance with the hunt and rescue successful the archetypal wave, flying for hours nether “very, precise dense force fire.” He said the U.S. has 1 chopper with galore bullets successful it.
Trump quality league begins
The U.S. president made his mode to the briefing country lectern soon earlier 1:10 p.m.
He is accompanied by his apical nationalist information advisers, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff. Also successful attendance are his children, Eric and Tiffany Trump, arsenic good arsenic their spouses.
Declaring that “this was 1 of our amended Easters,” Trump started his quality league by speaking astir the melodramatic rescue of 2 U.S. airmen successful Iran implicit the weekend.
Trump, with Easter bunny nearby, talks Iran war
In a surreal country connected the White House tract with flowers and Easter décor, Trump decided to springiness reporters an update connected the Iran war.
With children waiting nearby, idiosyncratic successful a bunny costume steps away, and soft, cheerful euphony successful the background, the president spoke astir the rescue of a missing airman changeable down successful Iran, defended his expletive-laden threats connected societal media, and warned that Iran should capitulate oregon look threats to its bridges and powerfulness plants.
Turkey’s president says his state has intensified propulsion to extremity the war
“We are striving to prehend immoderate chance, nevertheless small, for hostilities to cease and negotiations to open,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said successful a televised code pursuing a Cabinet meeting. He did not supply details.
Erdogan, a vocal professional of Israel, again accused the state of undermining each attempts to halt the fighting.
Trump defends his usage of vulgar connection successful a societal media post
The president utilized not-suitable-for-work connection successful a Sunday societal media posting informing Iran helium was superior astir targeting the country’s infrastructure if it doesn’t unfastened the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday deadline. He ended the abbreviated station by saying, “Praise beryllium to Allah.”
Asked by a newsman astir his salty language, Trump responded helium utilized it “only to marque my point.”
Trump added astir his usage of an expletive, “I deliberation you’ve heard it before.”
Trump suggests Kurdish groups person held onto guns meant for Iranian protesters
Trump appeared to corroborate that the U.S. had intended to limb Iranian protesters aft wide demonstrations against the authorities broke retired passim Iran successful precocious 2025 and continued aboriginal into this year.
Thousands of anti-government protesters were killed during the crackdowns by authorities forces. Fox News reported connected Sunday that Trump had told the network’s Trey Yingst successful a telephone interrogation that Kurdish groups who were expected to beryllium delivering the U.S.-provided weapons held connected to them.
“They were expected to spell to the radical truthful they could combat backmost against these thugs,” Trump told reporters connected Monday astir the weapons intended for protesters. “You cognize what happened? The radical that they sent them to kept them due to the fact that they said, ‘What a beauteous gun. I deliberation I’ll support it.’ So, I’m precise upset with a definite radical of radical and they’re going to wage a large terms for that.”
Trump says he’d similar to ‘take the oil’
President Trump said that he’d similar to usage U.S. subject powerfulness to instrumentality power of Iran’s immense lipid reserves, but acknowledged there’s not overmuch appetite for specified a determination among the American electorate.
“Take the lipid due to the fact that it’s determination for the taking,” Trump said. “There’s not a happening they tin bash astir it. Unfortunately, the American radical would similar to spot america travel home. If it were up to me, I’d instrumentality the oil. I’d support the oil. I would marque plentifulness of money.”
Trump warns Iran they’re making a mistake by not capitulating
Shortly aft authorities media reported Iran had rejected a ceasefire proposal, Trump offered a caller harsh informing to Iran.
“They conscionable don’t privation to accidental ‘uncle,‘” Trump told reporters arsenic helium and archetypal woman Melania Trump hosted the White House Easter Egg Roll. “They don’t privation to outcry arsenic the look goes ‘uncle,’ but they will. And if they don’t, They’ll person nary bridges. They’ll person nary powerfulness plants. They’ll person nary anything.”
He added different ominous warning, “I won’t spell further due to the fact that determination are different things that are worse than those two.”
A determination authoritative progressive successful the ceasefire talks says the efforts haven’t collapsed
“We are inactive talking to some sides,” helium says, speaking connected information of anonymity to sermon the closed-door diplomacy.
Israeli person Benjamin Netanyahu says petrochemical onslaught weakens Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
He said Monday’s onslaught connected an Iranian petrochemical installation is portion of a systematic run aimed astatine destroying the Guard’s “money machine.”
“We are destroying factories, we are eliminating activists and we proceed to destruct elder figures,” helium said successful a videotaped statement.
Netanyahu said helium besides spoke to President Trump astir the U.S. rescue of 2 downed unit members successful Iran. He said the president thanked Israel for assisting successful the mission.
An Iranian assemblage pupil asks the world: ‘Stop this war’
A nonmigratory of Tehran successful his aboriginal twenties says U.S.-Israeli strikes connected civilian infrastructure and Trump’s intensifying threats person “terrified” people.
“Everyone is precise anxious and frightened that the water, powerfulness and state volition beryllium cut,” helium said, speaking anonymously for his security.
The pupil archetypal spoke with The Associated Press connected the eve of the war, erstwhile helium participated successful anti-government protests astatine his Tehran university’s campus. At the time, helium described heated disagreements with friends who said they hoped a threatened Israeli-U.S. onslaught would overthrow the Islamic Republic.
“Those who were supporting the warfare are nary longer supporting it,” helium said Monday.
Sunday, helium heard the dependable of “a batch of explosions” astir the metropolis from his location successful the Sattar Khan area. He said he’d turned to taking sleeping pills to get done nightly bombardments.
— Amir-Hussein Radjy successful Cairo
Key Federal Reserve authoritative unfastened to imaginable complaint hikes amid state terms spikes
Beth Hammack, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, said Monday successful an interrogation with The Associated Press that if ostentation remains persistently supra the Fed’s 2% target, the cardinal slope should see lifting its benchmark involvement rate.
While Hammack besides said the Fed mightiness person to chopped its complaint if higher state prices caused the system to dilatory and unemployment to rise, a imaginable complaint hike is simply a noticeable displacement for the Fed from earlier the Iran war, erstwhile officials forecast 2 complaint cuts this year. A hike could assistance longer-term involvement rates for things similar mortgages and car loans.
“My baseline is that we’re connected clasp for rather immoderate time,” Hammack said, “but I tin foresee scenarios wherever we would request to trim rates ... if the labour marketplace deteriorates significantly. Or I could spot wherever we mightiness request to rise rates if ostentation stays persistently supra our target.”
Houthis assertion they deed subject sites successful Israel
The Iran-backed Houthis said they launched a barrage of cruise missiles and drones astatine respective subject sites successful confederate Israel, “successfully achieving its objectives,” according to the group’s subject spokesperson.
Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, the subject spokesperson for the Houthis, said successful a connection Monday that the missiles were launched arsenic portion of a associated cognition with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the Islamic Resistance successful Lebanon.
Iranian president lauds relation of slain quality chief
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian praised Maj. Gen. Majid Khademi, quality main of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, according to Iran’s authorities media.
Iran’s media reported Pezeshkian lauded Khademi’s quality relation and information efforts “against each kinds of conspiracies of enemies.”
“His martyrdom speaks to the information that the information and independency of Islamic Iran is indebted to the sacrifice and selflessness of the brave sons who, successful the astir hard circumstances, enactment tirelessly for the grant and bid of this land,” helium said.
Iran’s state-run IRNA quality bureau says Tehran has rejected the latest ceasefire proposal
The bureau said it had has conveyed its effect to the U.S. done Pakistan, a cardinal mediator.
“We won’t simply judge a ceasefire,” Mojtaba Ferdousi Pour, caput of the Iranian diplomatic ngo successful Cairo, told The Associated Press connected Monday. “We lone judge an extremity of the warfare with guarantees that we won’t beryllium attacked again.”
The effect came up of a deadline by President Trump to statesman bombing Iranian vigor and infrastructure.
Israel to ramp up accumulation of aerial defence interceptors
Israel’s ministry of defence said Monday that the country’s defence industries would “significantly increase” accumulation and stockpiling of rocket interceptors arsenic the warfare with Iran stretches on.
In a statement, the ministry said accumulation of rocket interceptors for the Arrow system, which defends against long-range ballistic missiles, would beryllium sped up. Arrow has been captious successful Israeli aerial defence during the existent war, passim which Israeli authorities person maintained there’s nary shortage of interceptor missiles.
Lebanese Christian governmental person criticizes authorities for not confronting Hezbollah
Samir Geagea, who leads the Lebanese Forces governmental party, made the remarks successful connection aft an Israeli onslaught deed an flat gathering successful the municipality of Ain Saadeh precocious Sunday, sidesplitting a enactment official, his woman and a pistillate visiting them.
The onslaught heightened existing tensions betwixt big communities and much than a cardinal displaced Lebanese, mostly Shia from confederate Lebanon, profoundly divided implicit Hezbollah and their presumption connected the war.
“Taking work from the outset would person been amended for everyone,” helium said, talking astir the Lebanese information agencies’ sluggish disarmament process of Hezbollah.
Israel’s subject says it struck 3 Tehran airports overnight
The subject says the strikes deed dozens of helicopters and craft it said belonged to the Iranian Air Force. It said the strikes targeted Bahram airport, Mehrabad airdrome and Azmayesh airport.
US-Israeli battle brings ‘destruction and bloodshed’ to Iran’s capital, nonmigratory says
A nonmigratory of cardinal Tehran has described surviving with “anxiety and fear” arsenic U.S.-Israeli strikes pummel the capital.
“Constantly, determination is the dependable of bombs, aerial defenses, drones,” she said, speaking connected information of anonymity for her safety.
At slightest 1 onslaught deed adjacent her home, waking her connected Wednesday, she said. Rushing into the neighboring street, she saw it “filled with radical successful pajamas, immoderate of them wrapped successful blankets, immoderate of them crying with fear.”
She besides described her choler astatine the fashionable outer channel, Iran International, which is based abroad. She said its sum had amplified exiled Iranian voices supporting strikes connected the Islamic Republic. “Some radical thought warfare mightiness bring bully things, but warfare doesn’t bring thing but demolition and bloodshed.”
Iranian authorities person moved to prohibition immoderate interaction with respective Persian-language outer channels based abroad. Many viewers wrong Iran accidental the frequencies are often disrupted.
— Amir-Hussein Radjy
US stocks clasp dependable portion crude lipid prices waver up of Trump’s Iran deadline
The U.S. banal marketplace is making lone hesitant moves, portion lipid prices are unsettled arsenic mediators effort to forge a ceasefire statement up of a deadline President Trump has acceptable to weaponry Iranian powerfulness plants.
The S&P 500 roseate 0.1% successful aboriginal trading Monday. The scale is coming disconnected its archetypal winning week successful the past six. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 107 points, and the Nasdaq composite roseate 0.4%.
Oil prices flipped betwixt gains and losses arsenic uncertainty continued astir what volition hap successful the warfare with Iran and however agelong it volition dilatory the travel of lipid and earthy gas.
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Red Cross president says wartime demolition of indispensable civilian infrastructure indispensable stop
In a connection released Monday, Mirjana Spoljaric, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, raised alarm astir demolition of civilian infrastructure and atomic facilities successful the Iran war.
“Across the Middle East, our teams are seeing the demolition of infrastructure indispensable for civilian life,” including hospitals, schools, powerfulness plants, h2o systems and more, Spoljaric wrote.
“Most alarming are imaginable threats to atomic facilities. Any miscalculation tin origin irreversible consequences for generations to come.”
Turkish and Iranian overseas ministers sermon the war
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, held a telephone speech Monday, during which they discussed “the authorities of the war” and different developments, a Turkish authoritative said. The authoritative provided the accusation connected information of anonymity successful enactment with authorities rules and did not elaborate.
The telephone came arsenic 2 Middle East officials said mediators from Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey sent Washington and Tehran a connection calling for a 45‑day ceasefire and for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
— Suzan Fraser
Iran confirms connection with mediators
Iran’s overseas ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, has told journalists successful Tehran that messages are being exchanged, but “negotiations are wholly incompatible with ultimatums, crimes and threats of warfare crimes.”
Loud booms and sounds of aerial defenses heard successful Jerusalem
It comes aft Israel’s subject said Iran had launched missiles toward the country.
Israeli subject and Mossad helped rescue downed American airman successful Iran, Huckabee says
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee wrote successful a societal media station connected Monday that Israel’s subject and Mossad concealed work had assisted successful the U.S. effort to rescue an airman whose level was downed by Iran.
Huckabee thanked Israel for helping the U.S. subject and quality agencies successful the station to X.
Israeli officials person said Israel provided support, including intelligence, successful the rescue, but troops weren’t actively progressive connected the ground.
Iranian advisor warns the Mideast volition spell ‘dark’ if Iran’s powerfulness plants are attacked
A erstwhile Iranian overseas curate and advisor to the ultimate person called for Arab countries to discourage U.S. President Donald Trump from striking Iran’s powerfulness plants.
Ali Akbar Velayati warned the full portion would spell “dark” if Trump fulfilled his menace and bombed Iran’s powerfulness plants.
“The rulers of #Arab_countries should, successful bid to forestall the portion from going dark, marque Trump recognize that the #Persian_Gulf is not a spot for gambling,” helium wrote connected societal media.
UN watchdog confirms strikes adjacent to Bushehr atomic facility
The United Nations atomic watchdog connected Monday confirmed caller strikes deed adjacent to Iran’s Bushehr atomic powerfulness plant, with 1 hitting conscionable 75 meters (82 yards) from the facility’s perimeter.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said successful a societal media station that its ain investigation showed the works was not damaged arsenic of Sunday.
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi called for ceasing specified attacks, which origin “a precise existent information to atomic safety.”
Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization has reported 4 attacks adjacent to the installation since the warfare started Feb. 28. The past onslaught Saturday killed a information defender and damaged a enactment building, the enactment said.
The Bushehr atomic powerfulness works uses low-enriched uranium from Russia, on with Russian technicians, to proviso astir 1,000 megawatts of powerfulness for Iran.
Israeli subject says 4 radical killed successful Haifa onslaught were members of aforesaid family
Israel’s subject confirmed 4 radical recovered dormant astatine the tract of a rocket onslaught successful Haifa were members of the aforesaid family.
Search and rescue teams recovered 2 bodies underneath the rubble Sunday. After 18 hours digging they recovered 2 much “deep nether the debris” Monday,” Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said.
He said the warhead that deed the gathering had not exploded connected impact, complicating rescue efforts and posing a continued threat.
They were recovered aft hours of overnight rescue efforts, the subject said.
Israeli subject says it killed person of Quds Force undercover unit
Israel’s subject said Monday it killed the person of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard’s undercover portion successful its expeditionary Quds Force.
Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, a subject spokesman, confirmed the sidesplitting of Asghar Bakeri successful a briefing to reporters.
He said Bakeri had planned attacks connected Israeli and American targets arsenic good arsenic operations successful Israel, Syria and Lebanon.
Israeli onslaught kills anti-Hezbollah person successful Lebanon
The hilly Christian municipality of Ain Saadeh, eastbound of Beirut, was successful daze Monday aft an Israeli rocket crashed into an flat building, sidesplitting an anti-Hezbollah politician, his woman and different woman.
Israel said it targeted a Hezbollah militant, but the third-story flat was empty.
The onslaught blew retired the walls and windows of the level below, sidesplitting Pierre Mouawad, an authoritative successful the Lebanese Forces, a Christian governmental enactment opposed to the Iran-backed Hezbollah group, and his wife, Flavia Mouawad.
“This is the archetypal clip thing similar this has happened here,” household person Nadine Naameh said. “We had ever felt harmless here.”
Neighbors wept extracurricular the collapsed apartments arsenic crews swept distant the rubble.
“The radical who unrecorded present are against violence. They don’t privation this war,” according to municipal authoritative Pierre Said.
Israel said it was investigating “reports that respective uninvolved individuals were harmed.”
Israel says it attacked South Pars works astatine Asaluyeh
Israel’s defence curate said Monday that Israel attacked the South Pars petrochemical works astatine Asaluyeh.
Israel Katz made the announcement successful a connection aft Iran said the installation had been attacked.
Katz said Israel had “just carried retired a almighty onslaught connected the largest petrochemical installation successful Iran, located successful Asaluyeh, a cardinal people liable for astir 50% of the country’s petrochemical production.”
An Israeli onslaught successful March connected South Pars facilities sparked large Iranian attacks targeting lipid and state infrastructure crossed the Gulf Arab states.
When asked astir the South Pars strike, Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, Israel’s subject spokesperson, said lone that determination would beryllium “no immunity” for Iran arsenic talks progress.
The White House did not instantly respond erstwhile asked astir the South Pars onslaught Monday morning.
Iranian media says attacks people South Pars earthy state field
Attacks targeted facilities Monday astatine Iran’s South Pars earthy state field, Iranian media outlets reported.
The semiofficial Fars quality bureau and the judiciary’s Mizan quality bureau some reported the attack, blaming the U.S. and Israel.
Neither state instantly claimed immoderate onslaught astatine Asaluyeh successful Iran’s confederate Bushehr province.
Iran condemned the archetypal Israeli onslaught connected South Pars successful March, with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian informing of “uncontrollable consequences” that “could engulf the full world.” The onslaught connected South Pars saw Iran progressively people Gulf Arab lipid and earthy state sites.
U.S. President Donald Trump has warned of imaginable attacks connected powerfulness plants and bridges this week if the Strait of Hormuz is not opened.
After Israel’s earlier attack, Trump said Israel would not onslaught South Pars again, but warned connected societal media that if Iran continued striking Qatar’s vigor infrastructure, the United States would retaliate and “massively stroke up the entirety” of the field.
Iran shares the South Pars tract with Qatar, which refers to its portion of the monolithic offshore tract arsenic the North Field.
The tract is the world’s largest state tract and sits nether the waters of the Persian Gulf.
Pakistan overseas curate calls for ‘urgent de-escalation’
Pakistan Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar spoke with his Japanese counterpart Toshimitsu Motegi by telephone and called for “urgent de-escalation.”
A Pakistan Foreign Ministry connection said Dar “reaffirmed Pakistan’s committedness to supporting each initiatives aimed astatine de-escalation and the accomplishment of lasting bid and stability.”
Motegi appreciated and supported Pakistan’s “constructive role” successful facilitating dialog and diplomacy for determination bid and stability, the ministry said, adding that the leaders agreed to support contact.
Israel warns nationalist against caller Iranian rocket barrage
Israel’s subject warned the nationalist Monday greeting of different rocket barrage coming from Iran, the 5th specified alert of the day.
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