Trump's profanity-laced ultimatum to Iran looms over 11th-hour truce bid

The spokesperson for Iran's overseas ministry said Monday that President Trump's repeated threats to onslaught the country's civilian infrastructure amounted to warfare crimes, arsenic helium acknowledged ongoing diplomatic efforts to extremity the warfare but warned that "negotiation tin successful nary mode beryllium compatible with ultimatums, crimes, oregon threats to perpetrate warfare crimes.

As reports said Pakistan had handed Tehran and Washington a connection for a 45-day ceasefire, overseas ministry spokesperson Esmail Baqaei said it was "not antithetic for intermediaries to convey the positions of the parties … and naturally, this process continues."

"However, dialog tin successful nary mode beryllium compatible with ultimatums, crimes, oregon threats to perpetrate warfare crimes," Baqaei added successful remarks conveyed by Iranian authorities media.  

"Regarding threats against us, determination is nary doubt: issuing specified threats constitutes warfare crimes, encourages warfare crimes, and normalizes warfare crimes. Repeatedly threatening a state with the demolition of vigor and concern infrastructure, portion signaling to the Israeli authorities to onslaught civilian targets either unsocial oregon with your cooperation, constitutes a warfare transgression nether some planetary humanitarian instrumentality and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court," Baqaei said.

Others person warned that attacking civilian infrastructure would represent a warfare crime. 

"Electrical generating plants powerfulness hospitals, they powerfulness schools, h2o sanitation facilities, the things that you request to prolong basal day-to-day surviving for a civilian population," Tess Bridgeman, who was a ineligible advisor to President Obama's National Security Council, told CBS News nationalist information analogous David Martin implicit the weekend. "Obliterating each powerfulness plants, threatening coercive actions against the civilian colonisation to effort to bring a authorities to the negotiating table, those kinds of things are flatly illegal."

Elliott Abrams, who served arsenic peculiar typical for Iran successful the archetypal Trump administration, told Martin punishing the Iranian colonisation would undercut the U.S. cause. "We privation the Iranian radical connected our side," helium said. "I'd alternatively spot america spell aft authorities targets, assets they usage to repress the Iranian people, not assets Iranians usage to unrecorded their regular lives."

President Trump is scheduled to clasp a quality league astatine the White House aboriginal Monday astir the palmy ngo implicit the play to rescue the 2nd subordinate of a U.S. F-15E combatant pitchy crew from wrong Iran, among different topics. 

Mr. Trump said successful a Truth Social station implicit the play that members of the subject would articulation him to talk with the media astatine 1 p.m. Eastern connected Monday afternoon. 

The F-15's aviator was rescued Friday aft the pitchy was changeable down implicit a distant country of Iran, but the 2nd unit subordinate wasn't rescued by U.S. forces until aboriginal Sunday greeting section time. 

"We person rescued the earnestly wounded, and truly brave, F-15 Crew Member/Officer, from heavy wrong the mountains of Iran," Mr. Trump wrote successful a Truth Social post connected Sunday, calling him "a highly respected Colonel." 

The naval bid of Iran's almighty Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vowed Monday that shipping successful "the Strait of Hormuz volition ne'er instrumentality to its erstwhile state, particularly for America and Israel."

"The Navy of the IRGC is successful the process of completing the operational preparations for the Announced Plan of Iran's officials for the caller bid successful the Persian Gulf," the bid said successful a statement posted connected societal media.

It appeared to beryllium a notation to a program approved by Iran's parliament past week to complaint a interest for each commercialized vessels to transit the strait, a captious shipping lane connected which Iran has enforced a de facto blockade successful retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli strikes present successful their 5th week. 

Iran has allowed immoderate ships to traverse the strait successful caller days, but nary belonging to the U.S. oregon Israel, and it is believed to beryllium utilizing its Larak Island arsenic a "toll booth" to cod fees that different countries accidental magnitude to extortion.

Pakistan has presented the U.S. and Iran with a last-ditch connection to instantly halt warring and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a root alert of the ongoing indirect negotiations told the Reuters quality bureau connected Monday. Axios archetypal reported connected Sunday a bid for a imaginable 45-day ceasefire, intended to beryllium the archetypal portion of a two-phase woody aimed astatine launching broader, nonstop negotiations to permanently extremity the war.

Pakistan drafted the model to extremity the hostilities and presented it to Tehran and the Trump medication overnight, the root told Reuters.

"All elements request to beryllium agreed today," the root told the quality agency.

The root told Reuters that Pakistan's service chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, was successful interaction "all nighttime long" with Vice President JD Vance, U.S. peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

Reuters said the connection by Islamabad calls for a ceasefire to instrumentality effect instantly truthful the Strait of Hormuz could reopen. There would past beryllium 15–20 days for the 2 sides to finalize a broader colony to extremity the war.  

Neither the Trump medication nor Tehran offered immoderate contiguous effect to the proposal. 

Iranian officials person said antecedently that immoderate ceasefire indispensable travel with guarantees that the state volition not beryllium attacked again by the U.S. oregon Israel, but Iranian officials person besides indicated that they privation the presumption quo successful the Strait of Hormuz to change, with Tehran keeping a imperishable level of power implicit the captious shipping lane. Some person adjacent suggested Iran indispensable beryllium paid reparations for the harm done during the war, reparations that could travel successful the signifier of "tolls" charged by Iran to fto ships done the strait. 

Reuters said a last statement nether the connection would beryllium expected to see Iranian commitments not to prosecute atomic weapons successful speech for the U.S. and different countries lifting sanctions and ⁠releasing billions of dollars of frozen Iranian assets.

Israel and the United States carried retired a question of attacks connected Iran connected Monday, sidesplitting much than 25 people, and Iran responded with rocket occurrence connected Israel and its Gulf Arab neighbors. 

Explosions rang retired successful Tehran and low-flying jets could beryllium heard for hours arsenic the superior was pounded. Thick achromatic fume roseate adjacent the city's Azadi Square aft 1 airstrike deed the grounds of the Sharif University of Technology.

Among those killed successful 1 of the attacks was the caput of quality for Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Maj. Gen. Majid Khademi, Iranian authorities media and the Israeli subject said.

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces said Khademi, whose predecessor was killed successful erstwhile strikes past summer, was killed successful an intelligence-based airstrike successful Tehran. 

The IDF said Khademi was "responsible for gathering quality and helping formulate a broad situational appraisal for the regime's elder leadership" during the existent war, calling him a "key fig successful the campaign."

"Additionally, Khademi worked to beforehand violent activities against the State of Israel and against Jewish targets worldwide. He besides took portion successful attempts to people American individuals and was liable for monitoring Iranian civilians arsenic portion of the regime's suppression of interior protests," the IDF said.

Iranian missiles deed the bluish Israeli metropolis of Haifa, meanwhile, wherever 4 radical were recovered dormant successful the rubble of a residential building, the Israeli subject said.

Israeli exigency responders enactment to retrieve bodies from a residential gathering pursuing evident Iranian ballistic rocket onslaught connected April 6, 2026 successful Haifa, Israel. Amir Levy/Getty

Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia each activated their aerial defence systems to intercept incoming Iranian missiles and drones, arsenic Tehran kept up the unit connected its Gulf neighbors. Iran's regular attacks connected determination vigor infrastructure and its stranglehold connected the Strait of Hormuz, done which a 5th of the world's lipid is shipped successful peacetime, has sent planetary vigor prices soaring.

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Iran's cardinal subject bid warned connected Monday of "much much devastating" retaliation if its adversaries deed civilian targets. 

"If attacks connected civilian targets are repeated, the adjacent stages of our violative and retaliatory operations volition beryllium overmuch much devastating and widespread," a spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said successful a connection posted by authorities broadcaster IRIB connected Telegram.

The president told Fox News successful a telephone interrogation that helium thinks helium tin get a woody with Iran by Monday, acknowledging past ditch diplomatic efforts. 

Trey Yingst, Fox News' main overseas correspondent, said the president told him if Iran doesn't marque a woody quickly, he's "considering blowing everything up and taking implicit the oil."

The interrogation came aft Mr. Trump, successful an Easter Sunday station connected Truth Social, warned that without a deal, Tuesday would beryllium "Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, each wrapped up successful one, successful Iran," arsenic helium threatened to deed the country's electrical plants and different civilian infrastructure.

"There volition beryllium thing similar it!!!" the president wrote connected Truth Social. "Open the F*****' Strait, you brainsick bastards, oregon you'll beryllium surviving successful Hell — JUST WATCH!"

He aboriginal posted connected Truth Social: "Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time," indicating his evident deadline for Iran to marque a deal.

He told The Wall Street Journal "if they don't bash thing by Tuesday evening, they won't person immoderate powerfulness plants and they won't person immoderate bridges standing."