Month: April 2026

USA Today – Trump says ‘We got him!’ as US forces rescue crew member missing in Iran

The second crew member of an F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jet that crashed in Iran has been rescued by U.S. forces, President Donald Trump said early Sunday in a social media post.

In the Truth Social post, the president described an intense search and rescue operation that led to the crew member being found safe.

“This brave Warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies, who were getting closer and closer by the hour, but was never truly alone,” Trump said.

On Friday, the F‑15E fighter went down over Iran, prompting a U.S. rescue mission that quickly recovered one crew member. But another from the fighter aircraft had remained missing as of late Friday.

Trump said the crew member sustained injuries but “he will be just fine.”

Separately, an A-10 “Warthog” plane that was part of the search-and-rescue mission was fired on by Iranian forces. The Warthog pilot ejected over the Persian Gulf but was rescued, according to the New York Times and CBS News.

Earlier Saturday, Trump posted that Iranian military leaders were “terminated” by U.S. strikes in Iran.

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Bloomberg – Trump Warns Iran It Has 48 Hours Left as Airman Remains Missing

President Donald Trump said Saturday that time was running out on his 10-day deadline for Iran to make a peace deal with the US and threatened that the Islamic Republic would face “all hell” in 48 hours.

“Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT,” Trump said in a social-media post the day before Easter. “Time is running out — 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to God!”

Trump had extended a five-day deadline to April 6 as preliminary discussions for peace talks got under way in late March. As attacks intensified from all sides, including Iran’s downing of two US military aircraft, Trump’s rhetoric has hardened from his recent attempts to find a way out of the growing conflict.

Trump has warned that if Iran doesn’t agree to his terms — which the government has rejected — and open the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping traffic out of the Persian Gulf, the US would bomb the country’s civilian energy infrastructure, strikes that would likely constitute a war crime under international law.

Missing Pilot

In Iran, the US continued search-and-rescue operations for a crew member from an F-15E fighter jet shot down by Iran on Friday, as Tehran kept up attacks on Gulf Arab states and Israel. A second US combat plane reportedly crashed in the Persian Gulf the same day. The incidents mark a significant blow for Washington as the war enters its sixth week with energy prices rising and little sign of an end to the conflict.

Trump declined to discuss the search-and-rescue operations in an interview with NBC News on Friday. He said the events wouldn’t affect any peace negotiations with Iran, according to a reporter who spoke to him on a call.

On Saturday, Iran said US-Israeli strikes hit petrochemical plants and forced the evacuation of a large industrial zone. Other attacks targeting the perimeter of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant left one security staff member dead, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. The main sections of the facility, where Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom has workers, were unaffected, Tasnim said.

Iran continued to fire missiles and drones across much of the Middle East. Dubai authorities reported that debris from an aerial interception fell on the facade of an Oracle Corp. building in Dubai Internet City on Saturday morning. They also reported debris hitting a building in the nearby Dubai Marina area. No fire or injuries were reported.

Iran fired more missiles at Israel. There was damage to a parking lot in Tel Aviv and to buildings in several outlying towns, authorities said, describing the impacts as caused by debris from interceptions. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

The downing of the US jet came despite Trump’s claim in a primetime address on Wednesday that Iran no longer had anti-aircraft equipment. His military commanders, as well as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, have previously touted US air superiority over Iranian territory.

It’s the first known combat loss of a US or Israeli plane since the two countries began attacking Iran on Feb. 28. Three US aircraft were downed by friendly fire in Kuwait early in the war, while others have been destroyed or damaged at airbases by Iranian drones and missiles.

Read More: Iran Says Iraqi Ships Are Allowed to Use Strait of Hormuz

The US rescued one of the F-15 crew members, according to an American official who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive information. The status of the second person is unclear and Iranian media said Tehran offered a reward of about $66,000 to citizens who capture the person alive.

The lone pilot of the second plane — an A-10 Warthog — was safely rescued, the New York Times reported.

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Iran Hits Energy Plants

Iran has continued to hit key energy infrastructure in the past two days.

The UAE’s largest natural gas processing facility, Habshan, suspended operations after debris from a projectile interception sparked a fire. A drone attack set ablaze Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery, which can process almost 350,000 barrels a day of crude.

The United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a member, said it detected 79 projectiles fired from Iran on Saturday, including 23 ballistic missiles. That was the highest number of projectiles since March 8, according to data published by UAE authorities, and continued a trend of more numerous attacks over the last three days.

The UAE, like other Gulf states and Israel, has intercepted the vast majority of Iranian attacks.

Israel’s military said it hit air defense sites and missile storage facilities in a wave of airstrikes on Tehran on Friday. Iran said US-Israeli strikes hit a petrochemical zone in Mahshahr, in the southwestern Khuzestan province on Saturday. Authorities ordered the evacuation of all personnel and said any potential pollutants don’t pose a risk to nearby cities, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

Peace Efforts Stall

Iran has shown little sign of accepting Trump’s demands for peace and has laid out its own conditions — most of them unacceptable to the US and Israel.

The New York Times, citing US intelligence reports, said Iranian personnel have been digging out underground missile bunkers and silos struck by American and Israeli bombs and returning them to operation hours after attacks. That casts doubt on the US and Israel’s ability to destroy Iran’s missile capability — one of their key war goals.

Despite Trump’s weekend threat, the president signaled this week he may be willing to pull US forces out of the conflict in two to three weeks, even if the Strait of Hormuz is still effectively shut.

US allies are stepping up efforts to ensure the waterway — through which one fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas supplies normally flow — is reopened soon.

Iran’s military said Saturday that Iraq would be exempt from shipping restrictions in the trait, opening the potential of as much as 3 million barrels a day of Iraqi oil cargoes.

More than 40 of their foreign ministers met virtually on Thursday to discuss plans, signaling to Trump their concern about the closure.

On Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a social media post that he spoke by phone with Mark Rutte, secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization saying the situation was heading for a deadlock and “urged the international community to step up efforts to end the war.”

The group, convened by the UK, was clear that any ceasefire talks with Iran needed to include a solution for Hormuz, people familiar with the discussions said. Still, the meeting, which the US and Iran were not part of, showed the coalition of countries deem it necessary to prepare for having to reopen the strait without Washington.

Nations such as France and the UK have said military options are unlikely to work until there’s a ceasefire.

Bahrain, supported by Jordan and Arab Gulf states, is proposing a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at helping re-open Hormuz, according to the UAE. It would provide “a clear legal basis for all states to mobilize and support safe passage,” the UAE said in a post on X.

It’s unclear when a vote on the resolution will take place.

Russia, an Iranian ally, pushed back on the initiative, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying it would “legitimize aggression against Iran.” The comments signal Moscow may use its veto power, as one of five permanent members of the Security Council.

Ships Trickle Through Strait

Iran appeared to tighten its grip on the strait on Thursday, when its media reported that the government is drafting a protocol with Oman to monitor traffic. That would require shippers to pay tolls to Iran, according to its deputy foreign minister.

The passage is officially in international waters and any attempt by Iran to assert control over traffic will be opposed strongly by Western powers and Gulf Arab states.

A trickle of ships is managing to pass through. A French container ship and a Japanese-owned tanker have crossed the Strait of Hormuz in the past two days, in what appear to be the first such transits since the war in Iran shuttered the crucial waterway.

The energy shock, which has seen gasoline pump prices in the country jump to more than $4 a gallon on average carries political risks for Trump and his Republican Party in the November midterm elections.

US benchmark oil prices, or WTI futures, closed at more than $111 a barrel last week and have almost doubled this year.

More than 5,000 people have been killed in the conflict, almost three-quarters of them in Iran, according to government organizations and the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency. Just over 1,300 people have been killed in Lebanon, where Israel is fighting a parallel war against Iran-allied Hezbollah.

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Financial Times – In Tehran, neighbours wonder where the next bombs will land

At about 4am one day this week, a three-storey house in a residential neighbourhood of western Tehran was obliterated in an air strike. The iron frame was torn apart and nearby buildings, including a high-rise across the street, were severely damaged.

Amid the shattered glass, confused and shocked neighbours gathered to make sense of the destruction. “Who lived there?” they asked, according to one person present at the scene. Rescue teams arrived with dogs, combing through the rubble for survivors. Locals later speculated that a commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps could have been the target, although it was not confirmed.

For residents of the city, dazed and ripped awake through the night by bombs that feel as if they are landing all around them, daily life seems like a gamble.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the US would hit Iran “extremely hard” over the coming weeks and “bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong”. And Israel, which has led the bombing campaign on Tehran, announced last week an “acceleration” of attacks on what it said was its remaining list of military targets.

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U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure, including oil refineries, gas treatment facilities and fuel storage depots, pose severe health and environmental risks to civilian populations in Iran, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRA) warned today. All parties to the conflict must cease attacks on energy infrastructure that lead to widespread public health harm, in violation of international legal prohibitions on attacks on energy that cause disproportionate civilian harm.

These dangers are unfolding in a health system already severely impacted by overwhelming demands following violence against civilians and attacks on health workers by the Iranian regime earlier this year, direct damage to health facilities, as well as ongoing shortages in medical supplies due to sanctions and economic crisis. Iranian health care workers have reported to HRA severe consequences stemming from U.S. and Israeli attacks on energy and health care infrastructure.

“During the period following the strikes on fuel depots, even in our hospital, which is not specialized in respiratory care, we observed a noticeable number of patients presenting with breathing difficulties, persistent coughing, and signs of airway irritation,” said a general surgeon in Iran. “One of the major challenges has been supply constraints. At different points, we faced shortages of key medications.”

Patients in Iran are presenting with “severe asthma attacks[…], and several previously healthy individuals presenting with bronchospasm, persistent cough, and reduced oxygen saturation,” a specialist in Tehran told HRA. 

“The strain on our facility has also been amplified by damage to smaller health care centers. Patients who would normally be stabilized or treated locally are instead referred to us, increasing the load.[…] The volume and acuity of cases exceed[ed] routine capacity,” said a health care provider at a specialized hospital in Tehran.

Environmental toxicologists have also highlighted the short- and long-term health harms populations can face from large-scale oil fires.

‘Heath effects of exposure to burning oil have been well documented in those exposed during the war in the Persian Gulf in 1991 and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. The wide range of documented respiratory and cardiovascular effects noted were observed in relatively healthy populations, whereas effects are likely to be far more severe in the general population, which includes the very young and elderly, many with pre-existing health problems. The additional ‘oil- related combustion’ problems are easy to prevent by avoiding attacks on energy infrastructure. All parties to the current conflict in the Gulf must not attack energy facilities,” said Alastair Hay, PhD, OBE, professor emeritus of environmental toxicology, University of Leeds, and PHR Advisory Council member.

Evidence from past large-scale oil fires shows that oil combustion releases a complex mixture of toxic pollutants, including a wide range of particulates of all sizes, sulfur and nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, acid aerosols, and heavy metals. These emissions can travel over long distances, degrading air quality and contaminating water and soil.

Preliminary reports from affected areas in Iran, describing dense smoke plumes and accounts of “black rain,” are consistent with the release of hazardous combustion byproducts. Exposure to these pollutants is associated with acute respiratory symptoms such as shortness of breath, cough, eye irritation, and skin conditions, as well as exacerbations of cardiovascular disease and respiratory diseases such as sinus and asthma conditions.

In a single attack on an oil depot in Alborz, HRA documented at least six civilian deaths and 21 injuries, underscoring that these strikes are not only causing serious health impacts but also directly resulting in civilian casualties.

Evidence also indicates the potential for long-term health effects. These include chronic respiratory illness, reduced lung function, and other systemic impacts. The scale and duration of these fires raise serious concerns about sustained exposure, particularly for populations living in close proximity to the affected sites.

During recent nationwide protests, Iranian health facilities were overwhelmed by mass casualties and subjected to interference, surveillance, and the targeting of medical personnel. Security forces have reportedly entered hospitals, detained patients, and pressured providers to conceal evidence of injuries. These actions have further undermined the ability of the health system to deliver safe, independent care.

Iranian retaliatory attacks on energy infrastructure across the region carry similarly serious and foreseeable health and environmental risks, impacting civilian populations in the targeted Gulf states.

Effective mitigation of attacks on energy requires coordinated public health interventions. Among these are real-time air quality monitoring, access to protective measures such as high-efficiency filtration and appropriate respiratory protection, and the capacity to provide timely clinical care and long-term medical surveillance. During an ongoing war and with internal barriers to sufficient resources, such responses may be delayed, inadequate, or inaccessible to people most at risk.

International law generally prohibits attacks on energy infrastructure and mandates that such attacks must not cause disproportionate harm to civilians. The foreseeable, severe, and reverberating consequences of the destruction of energy infrastructure on civilian life – in the immediate and long-term – require heightened precautions and consideration in any civilian harm assessment in the planning of an attack.

PHR​ and HRA​ call on Israel, the United States, and Iran to end all threats to and attacks on energy infrastructure in violation of international law and to adhere to their obligations to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, including facilities essential to public health and environmental safety. ​ ​PHR ​and HRA ​also ​​call​​ on the governments of affected countries to implement immediate measures to mitigate exposure, protect affected populations, and ensure that the health system is supported to respond effectively.

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is a New York-based advocacy organization that uses science and medicine to prevent mass atrocities and severe human rights violations.

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The Telegraph – Iran recruits 12-year-olds to ‘defend homeland’

Iran is recruiting children as young as 12 to “defend the homeland” in a new nationwide campaign for the US-Israeli war.

Children will take part in surveillance, patrols and checkpoint inspections under the new plans announced last week by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC).

Registration booths have been set up at mosques and major city squares across Tehran, with similar campaigns expected in other cities.

Just days after the new recruitment campaign was launched, an 11-year-old boy was killed in a drone strike at a military checkpoint in Tehran.

Alireza Jafari, who under normal circumstances would have been in the fifth grade at school (Year 6), was instead stationed at the checkpoint on Artesh Highway, helping his father “defend Iran”.

The Basij Teachers Organisation confirmed that Alireza was killed “while on duty”, performing security tasks in a war that has already claimed nearly 1,600 civilian lives.

Alireza’s death highlighted concerns about the IRGC’s recruitment tactics for wartime security operations and its manpower problems.

His mother told the state-affiliated Hamshahri newspaper about the “personnel shortage” that led her husband to bring their son to work.

The “Defenders of the Homeland Iran” was announced by Rahim Nadali, the cultural and artistic deputy of the IRGC’s Mohammad Rasoulollah Corps in Tehran.

Mr Nadali told Iranian media the campaign responded to public demand for ways to support fighters against US-Israeli aggression, and allowed people to contribute based on their skills and expertise.

“We launched a plan we call ‘For Iran’, which is a registration programme for homeland defence fighters,” Mr Nadali said. “We set the minimum age at 12 years and above.”

The campaign encompasses multiple categories of service.

Operational and security roles include participation in intelligence patrols, checkpoint inspections and operational patrols.

Support and logistics duties involve vehicle convoys, financial contributions and equipment provision.

Service and supply tasks include cooking, distributing needed items to fighters and repairing homes damaged by attacks.

Medical roles call for doctors and nurses to staff clinics and treat the wounded.

The campaign openly violates international humanitarian law, which grants children a special protected status as civilians and prohibits their use in armed conflict.

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court explicitly defines the recruitment or use of children under 15 in armed forces or hostilities as a war crime.

The death adds to mounting casualties in Iran’s month-long war with the United States and Israel.

According to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency group, at least 1,568 Iranian civilians have been killed since fighting began on Feb 28, including 236 children.

The organisation documented 360 attacks across 199 incidents in 18 provinces on Saturday alone, with 70 per cent of strikes concentrated on Tehran’s residential neighbourhoods.

The Norway-based Hengaw rights group called the IRGC plan to recruit children a “systematic crime against children” and urged international bodies, including the United Nations and Unicef to increase legal and diplomatic pressure to prevent the use of minors in military roles.

Iran has a history of recruiting children for security and even combat roles, including deploying child soldiers during the 1980s war with Iraq.

Stories of children sacrificing themselves to destroy Iraqi tanks were taught in Iranian schools as part of ideological education.

In 2016, Human Rights Watch reported that Iran was recruiting Afghan children to fight in Syria.

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EuroNews – Trump says deal could be reached ‘soon’ as Iran warns against US ground invasion

Targets were hit by airstrikes in Iran overnight on Monday, with Tehran launching its own strikes on Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, even as US President Donald Trump repeated claims that a deal could be reached “soon” to end the war.

Trump, citing the number of Iranian leaders who have been killed in the month-long US-Israeli war against Iran, said regime change has already been achieved, and the new leadership is “much more reasonable”.

“We’ve had regime change,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One. “We’re dealing with different people than anybody’s dealt with before. It’s a whole different group of people. So I would consider that regime change.”

Trump was asked aboard Air Force One if Iran had responded to a 15-point ceasefire plan the US has proposed and he said they did. “They gave us most of the points. Why wouldn’t they,” the US president said.

In Pakistan, the government is looking to capitalise on its links with Tehran and the Gulf states, as well as a budding rapport with Trump, to broker peace talks.

“Pakistan is very happy that both Iran and the US have expressed their confidence in Pakistan to facilitate the talks,” Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said.

But the speaker of Iran’s parliament has accused Washington of using diplomacy as a smoke screen.

“The enemy publicly sends messages of negotiation and dialogue while secretly planning a ground attack,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said in a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency.

“Our men are waiting for the arrival of the American soldiers on the ground to set them on fire and punish their regional allies once and for all,” he added.

Despite making diplomatic overtures, the US has also been sending more military assets into the region.

The USS Tripoli, an amphibious assault ship carrying around 3,500 Marines and sailors, arrived in the Middle East on Friday.

According to The Washington Post, the Pentagon was preparing plans for weeks of ground operations, potentially including raids on sites near the Strait of Hormuz, though Trump has yet to approve any deployment.

Power cuts in Tehran and surrounding areas

Iran launched strikes on Kuwait and Saudi Arabia after Iranian electrical facilities came under attack, cutting power to parts of Tehran and surrounding areas.

Iran’s energy ministry reported power outages in the capital Tehran, its surrounding region and neighbouring Alborz province on Sunday “following attacks on electricity industry facilities”.

It said “electricity was cut off in these areas, and efforts are being made to resolve the problem”, according to state television.

Trump has previously threatened to strike Iranian power stations if Tehran does not negotiate a peace deal, before repeatedly extending a deadline to do so.

An Iranian strike on a power station and water desalination in Kuwait killed one Indian worker and damaged a building at the site, the Gulf state’s electricity ministry said Monday.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry said its forces detected and intercepted five ballistic missiles.

Iran’s energy ministry reported power outages in Tehran, the surrounding region, and Alborz province “following attacks on electricity industry facilities.”

Israel to expand invasion of southern Lebanon

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he had ordered the military “to further expand the existing security zone” as his country continues its ground invasion of its northern neighbour.

“This is intended to definitively neutralise the threat of invasion (by Hezbollah militants) and to keep anti-tank missile fire away from the border,” he said.

“Iran is no longer the same Iran, Hezbollah is no longer the same Hezbollah, and Hamas is no longer the same Hamas,” Netanyahu added.

“These are no longer terrorist armies threatening our existence — they are defeated enemies, fighting for their own survival.”

“We are determined, we are fighting, and with God’s help, we are winning,” Netanyahu said.

Death toll continues to rise

Lebanon’s health ministry said on Sunday that Israeli strikes had killed 1,238 people in the country since the start of the latest war with Hezbollah on 2 March.

The toll included 124 children, while more than 3,500 people had been wounded, the ministry said in a statement. On Saturday and Sunday alone, 49 people were killed, it said, including 10 rescue workers and three journalists.

The UN force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said one of its peacekeepers was killed after a projectile hit one of its positions late Sunday.

“A peacekeeper was tragically killed last night when a projectile exploded in a UNIFIL position near Adchit Al Qusayr,” said Monday’s statement. “Another was critically injured.”

The UNIFIL statement said it did not know the origin of the projectile but had launched an investigation to find out.

Iran’s government has not released an updated overall casualty toll in recent days, but the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said on 28 March that at least 3,461 people had been killed, including 1,551 civilians, among them at least 236 children.

Israeli emergency services and authorities say attacks have killed 19 civilians on the Israeli side since the start of the war, while authorities in Gulf states and the US Central Command (CENTCOM) have reported 38 people killed, including 19 civilians.

CENTCOM has confirmed six US service personnel killed in Kuwait and one killed in Saudi Arabia.

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Open – US-Iran War: What Has Happened in 31 Days of Conflict?

The United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iran on February 28, 2026, under Operation Epic Fury. The Middle East conflict has since widened into Lebanon, the Gulf, and Iraq. Independent organisations estimate between 3,500 and 6,900 deaths in Iran, including over 1,500 civilians.

Operation Epic Fury began on February 28, 2026, during active nuclear negotiations between Washington and Tehran. The strikes killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior officials. Omani foreign minister Badr Al-Busaidi had said a deal was within reach days before the strikes.

Iran launched hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles at Israel and US military bases across Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. The Pentagon confirmed the loss of at least 15 US soldiers and damage to 17 military sites. A US submarine sank an Iranian Navy frigate south of Sri Lanka, killing 104 Iranian sailors, according to the Iranian army. On March 31, Iran hit a Kuwaiti oil tanker, Al Salmi, at Dubai port in the latest Iran-Israel escalation.

What Is the Human and Military Toll?

HRANA and Hengaw estimate between 3,500 and 6,900 deaths in Iran, including over 1,500 civilians. The Iranian Health Ministry reports higher figures. The Pentagon estimates approximately 6,000 Iranian military personnel killed in the US-Iran war to date.

What Is the UNIFIL Crisis in Lebanon?

Hezbollah has fired rockets at Israel since March 2 as the IDF advances toward the Litani River. Three Indonesian UNIFIL peacekeepers were killed during IDF ground operations in southern Lebanon: one by a projectile near Adchit al-Qusayr, two by a vehicle explosion near Bani Hayyan. Guterres said the attacks on UNIFIL peacekeepers may amount to war crimes.

Where Do Diplomacy Efforts Stand?

The Trump administration proposed a 15-point ceasefire plan during Islamabad talks involving Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi rejected it, calling it excessive. This Iran-Israel and US standoff leaves Pakistan as the sole active mediator.

Where Does the US-Iran War Stand Right Now?

Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz to adversaries while collecting tolls in Chinese Yuan from friendly nations. Mojtaba Khamenei has been elected as the new Supreme Leader in Tehran. The Trump administration has submitted a $200 billion supplemental funding request to Congress. The broader Middle East conflict shows no sign of resolution.

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The Hill – US strikes Iran city home to nuclear site

The U.S. military on Tuesday struck the Iranian city of Isfahan, where one of the country’s main nuclear sites is located.

The Isfahan Nuclear Energy Center was one of three facilities that U.S. B-2 bombers and a submarine hit last June. The Associated Press reported that analysts believe much of Iran’s highly enriched uranium is likely stored at the Isfahan site.

President Trump also shared a video of the aftermath on Truth Social, showing flames billowing into the sky as more missiles approached the area.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Tuesday at an early morning press briefing that U.S. forces bombed an ammunition depot in Isfahan.

The Wall Street Journal also reported the military hit the depot with 2,000-pound bunker-buster bombs, much smaller versions of the bombs used to strike the three nuclear facilities last summer, citing a U.S. official.

Alongside Hegseth, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Dan Caine told reporters that the U.S. military has struck more than 11,000 targets inside Iran since the conflict broke out late last month. In an update on social platform X, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said it had targeted command and control centers, headquarters and intelligence sites of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, ballistic missile sites, navy ships and submarines and air defense systems.

As of Tuesday, 1,574 civilians in Iran, including at least 236 children, have been killed since the war began on Feb. 28, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.

While the conflict continues, Trump has touted talks with Iranian officials while also threatening strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure and overseeing a build-up of U.S. troops in addition to the more than 50,000 service members already in the Middle East.

On Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said that while officials from his country have not negotiated with members of the Trump administration since the war began, the U.S. submitted a “negotiation request” through intermediaries, including Pakistan.

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