Trump warns ‘all hell will rain down’ on Iran if Hormuz strait shouldn’t be reopened by deadline
Donald Trump has threatened “all hell will reign down” on Iran if it doesn’t open the strait of Hormuz by Monday.
In a put up on his Reality Social app, he wrote:
double citation markRemember after I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is operating out – 48 hours earlier than all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD!
On 27 February, the US president prolonged his deadline for Iran to open the important thing delivery route by 10 days to six April.
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Updating our earlier put up about assaults on Kuwait on Sunday, a hearth has erupted within the Shuwaikh oil sector complicated that homes the oil ministry and Kuwait Petroleum Company headquarters, after a drone assault, the Kuwaiti state information company reported early on Sunday.
No accidents have been reported however the KPC says emergency and firefighting groups are preventing the hearth, in line with the report.
Individually, Kuwait’s state media, citing the finance ministry, mentioned an Iranian drone attacked an workplace complicated for presidency ministries, inflicting vital materials injury however no casualties.
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US federal brokers have arrested the niece and grandniece of the late Iranian army commander Qassem Soleimani, in Los Angeles, after the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, revoked their everlasting resident standing, officers mentioned on Saturday.
A avenue poster of the late senior Iranian army commander Common Qassem Soleimani in Tehran. {Photograph}: Majid Asgaripour/Reuters
Rubio confirmed on social media that the mother-daughter pair are “pending elimination” from the US. Officers allege the older girl, Soleimani Afshar, celebrated army strikes in opposition to American personnel, praised Iran’s new supreme chief after the US and Israel killed his predecessor, and described the US because the “Nice Devil”.
You may learn extra about their arrest, and different strikes by the US to terminate the authorized standing of individuals linked to the Iranian regime in our story right here.
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Excessive-resolution aerial photos of the world concerned within the Center East warfare will not be printed by US satellite tv for pc imagery firm Planet Labs after a request from the Trump administration.
Planet mentioned the US authorities had requested satellite tv for pc imagery suppliers to implement an “indefinite withhold of images”.
“Efficient retroactively from March 9, 2026, Planet is transferring to a managed entry mannequin, extending the publication delay for all new imagery inside the designated AOI (space of curiosity), and releasing imagery on a case-by-case foundation and for pressing, mission-critical necessities or within the public curiosity,” the corporate mentioned in a message to shoppers obtained by AFP.
Planet, based in 2010 by former Nasa scientists and whose pictures are broadly utilized by media and researchers, mentioned it anticipated the brand new coverage to final till the tip of the battle. The opposite main supplier of satellite tv for pc imagery, Vantor, (previously Maxar), has additionally introduced main restrictions.
Beneath US regulation any firm headquartered within the US that commercially operates high-resolution satellite tv for pc imagery could also be subjected to restrictions for causes of nationwide safety or overseas coverage.
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Israel has been focused this morning by missiles launched from Iran, in line with the Israeli army, within the newest salvo within the Center East warfare.
“A short time in the past, the IDF recognized missiles launched from Iran towards the territory of the State of Israel,” the army mentioned on social media.
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Iran’s central army command has rejected US president Donald Trump’s menace to destroy the nation’s very important infrastructure if it doesn’t settle for a peace deal inside 48 hours, calling it “helpless”.
Earlier right now, Trump mentioned Iran has 48 hours to make or deal or open the strait of Hormuz earlier than “all hell will reign down on them”.
This menace got here because the US and Iran have been racing to discover a lacking US pilot after a jet was shot down over the distant Khuzestan province in south-west Iran.
Gen Ali Abdollahi Aliabadi, in an announcement from the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, mentioned Trump’s menace was a “a helpless, nervous, unbalanced and silly motion”.
And, echoing the spiritual language of Trump’s social media put up, he warned that “the straightforward which means of this message is that the gates of hell will open for you”.
President Trump. {Photograph}: Nathan Howard/Getty ImagesShare
The Kuwaiti military says its air defences are intercepting missile and drone assaults.
Posting on X, the military wrote: “Any explosions heard are a results of air defence programs intercepting hostile assaults.”
Kuwait’s defence ministry mentioned it has handled eight missile and 19 drone assaults up to now 24 hours.
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Pope Leo led the world’s Catholics into Easter at a Saturday evening vigil Mass in St Peter’s Basilica and urged folks to not really feel numbed by the scope of the conflicts raging internationally however to work for peace.
Leo, who has emerged as an outspoken critic of the Iran warfare, mentioned that distrust and concern have been allowed to “sever the bonds between us via warfare, injustice and the isolation of peoples and nations”.
“Allow us to not permit ourselves to be paralyzed!” the primary US pope exhorted in a service for the holiest evening within the Catholic calendar, when the Bible says Jesus rose from the useless.
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The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee issued a warning on social media telling residents of southern Lebanon’s Kfar Hatta to instantly depart the world.
Within the assertion, Adraee mentioned residents of the southern village ought to transfer “no less than 1,000 meters away from the village,” warning the Israeli army would quickly act “with drive” within the space.
“Anybody close to Hezbollah parts, their services, and fight means is placing their life in peril,” he wrote.
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The Kuwaiti Ministry of Protection mentioned on Saturday that its air protection forces efficiently intercepted eight ballistic missiles and 19 drones over the past 24 hours, amid ongoing regional hostilities involving Iran.
Based on the Kuwait Instances, throughout a briefing on the Authorities Communication Middle, army spokesperson Colonel Saud Al-Atwan acknowledged that the Kuwaiti Armed Forces neutralized all incoming threats inside their operational zones. He confirmed there have been no studies of fatalities, accidents, or property injury ensuing from these particular engagements. He added that military explosive ordnance disposal groups have been dispatched to 4 separate websites throughout the identical interval to safe particles.
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Argentina’s International Affairs Ministry mentioned it has expelled Iran’s high diplomat on Saturday, as tensions proceed between the Iranian authorities and Argentina’s administration, which maintains an in depth strategic alliance with the Trump White Home.
International Affairs Minister Pablo Quirno confirmed by way of X that Iran’s Chargé d’Affaires, Mohsen Soltani Tehrani, has departed the nation. The exit follows a decision issued Thursday that gave the diplomat a 48-hour window to go away Argentine territory.
The diplomatic rift reached escalated earlier this week after Argentina formally designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group.
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A number of hundred protesters gathered at Tel Aviv’s Habima Sq. on Saturday night to demand an finish to the warfare.
The demonstration passed off amid strict wartime restrictions that sometimes restrict public gatherings to 150 folks. Nevertheless, following a authorized attraction, Supreme Courtroom justices issued an interim ruling on Saturday permitting as much as 600 individuals at Habima Sq. and 150 at numerous different websites nationwide.
However authorities quickly declared the meeting illegal and police moved in to forcibly clear the sq., leading to no less than 17 arrests.
Israelis carrying placards condemning the assaults and chanting slogans collect at Paris Sq. to protest the US and Israeli assaults on Iran in West Jerusalem, on April 04, 2026. {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty PhotosIsraelis carrying placards condemning the assaults and chanting slogans collect at Paris Sq. to protest the US and Israeli assaults on Iran in West Jerusalem, on April 04, 2026. {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty PhotosIsraelis carrying placards condemning the assaults and chanting slogans collect at Paris Sq. to protest the US and Israeli assaults on Iran in West Jerusalem, on April 04, 2026. {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty ImagesShare
The loss of life toll in Lebanon has reached 1,422 for the reason that battle with Israel started on 2 March, in line with information from the Lebanese well being ministry and reported by the Related Press. In simply the previous 24 hours, Israeli strikes have killed 54 folks and wounded 156.
The ministry studies that the cumulative fatalities embody 126 kids and 93 ladies. These losses observe a interval of intense aerial bombardment that started after Hezbollah launched rockets into northern Israel in a present of solidarity with Iran.
Amongst these killed are 54 well being employees, whereas Israeli strikes have focused 87 emergency medical service services, the well being ministry mentioned.
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The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, confirmed that Israel attacked Iran’s petrochemical crops following studies from Iranian media saying no less than 5 folks have been killed in an assault on the Mahshahr petrochemical zone.
“After we destroyed 70% of its means to create metal, which is used because the uncooked materials for the weapons used in opposition to us, right now we attacked their petrochemical factories,” Netanyahu mentioned in a video assertion posted on his X account.
“I promised you that we’ll proceed to crush the terrorist regime in Tehran, and that’s precisely what we’re doing,” he mentioned.
Smoke rises after strikes on the Mahshahr Petrochemical Zone in Bandar Mahshahr County, Khuzestan Province, Iran, on this handout image launched April 4, 2026, and obtained from a social media video. {Photograph}: Social Media/ReutersShare
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US search and rescue efforts for the lacking second crew member of the downed F-15E fighter jet continued right into a second day as Iran got here underneath heavy bombing and Israel prolonged the warfare in Lebanon.
A pilot had been rescued on Friday after the F-15E Strike Eagle grew to become the primary US aircraft to be downed over Iran throughout the five-week-long warfare, however the second of the two-strong crew has not been accounted for.
Iranian media launched photos of a wreckage, together with a particular F-15 tail fin, and a used ejector seat on Friday, with state media and companies within the nation providing a bounty if the lacking crew member might be captured.
The US air drive launched a large search and rescue effort, utilizing low-flying Pave Hawk helicopters and specialist C-130 Hercules transport.
Navy pilots mentioned the lacking F-15 crew member can be attempting to cover for so long as attainable from the Iranian army and doubtlessly looking for to transmit their location relative to a recognized secret level within the hope that US particular forces coming in by way of helicopter would have the ability to rescue them.
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Israel is making ready to assault Iranian power services however is awaiting a inexperienced gentle from the US, a senior Israeli protection official instructed Reuters on Saturday, including that any such assaults would seemingly come inside the subsequent week.
The feedback got here after US president Donald Trump issued a 48-hour ultimatum, sharpening concentrate on whether or not Washington would again additional Israeli army motion in opposition to Iran.
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After an airstrike hit the Shahid Beheshti College within the Iranian capital of Tehran, inflicting vital injury to educational infrastructure, pictures are circulating exhibiting the extent of destruction to the campus.
American and Israeli fighter jets focused a number of strategic and civilian websites inside Iran’s capital on Friday afternoon, together with Shahid Beheshti College, one of many nation’s main educational establishments, Iranian state media reported.
A view of the broken Shahid Beheshti College following a army strike carried out by the USA and Israel on 4 April, 2026 within the Velenjak district of Tehran, Iran. {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty PhotosA view of the broken Shahid Beheshti College following a army strike carried out by the USA and Israel on 4 April, 2026 within the Velenjak district of Tehran, Iran. {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty PhotosA person takes photos of the destroyed research equipments mendacity amid the particles of a broken constructing of the Shahid Beheshti College following a strike, in Tehran on 4 April, 2026. {Photograph}: AFP/Getty PhotosA view of the broken Shahid Beheshti College following a army strike carried out by the USA and Israel on 4 April, 2026 within the Velenjak district of Tehran, Iran. {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty ImagesShare
The following section of the US army offensive in opposition to Iran is ready to make the most of almost the nation’s whole world stock of stealthy JASSM-ER cruise missiles, necessitating a large diversion of stockpiles initially allotted to different areas, in line with reporting from Bloomberg.
An order was issued in late March to tug the $1.5 million precision weapons from Pacific command facilities, a supply instructed Bloomberg. To maintain the air marketing campaign, missiles presently stationed inside the continental US and different world services are being rerouted to the US Central Command (Centcom) bases and RAF Fairford within the UK.
The JASSM-ER, or Joint Air-to-Floor Missile-Prolonged Vary, is able to flying greater than 600 miles and was designed to hit targets at a safer distances to keep away from an enemy’s air defenses.
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