Here's the latest
• Trump’s deadline: US President Donald Trump appeared to set a “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time” deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, following a profanity-laced message warning of attacks on its infrastructure.
• Iran’s threats: Iranian officials responded with threats that the region could “burn,” and said the strait would only reopen when they were “fully compensated” for war damages.
• Latest strikes: Six children were among those killed in overnight Israeli-US strikes on Iran, state media reported. Two people were killed and two are missing after an Iranian strike on a residential building in Haifa, Israel.
• Airman rescue: Meanwhile, Trump will hold a news conference later today on the rescue of an F-15 crew member whose jet was downed over Iran. Newly released satellite images showed multiple craters along roads in the area where the airman was extracted.
Oil prices stay elevated following Trump's threat
Oil prices traded relatively flat and remained elevated on early Monday, as President Donald Trump’s new threats to strike Iran unsettled investors, sending prices soaring on Sunday.
Brent crude, the global benchmark, rose 0.27% to $109.32 as of 3:14 am ET, while WTI crude, the US benchmark, fell 0.46% to $111.03.
Trump on Sunday threatened to hit Iran’s power plants and other infrastructure if Tehran does not open the Strait of Hormuz — a critical oil and gas shipping route that has been effectively shut for over a month now. He also appeared to set a new “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time” deadline. In response, an Iranian official said the strait would stay closed until the country is “fully compensated” for war damages.
In Asia, where most countries are heavily dependent on crude and gas supplies from the Middle East, stock markets are trading slightly higher, paring some of the losses from the previous week of turbulence.
Japan’s benchmark index Nikkei 225 rose 0.55%. South Korea’s Kospi climbed 1.36%. Hong Kong’s market is closed for a public holiday.
Two killed, two missing after Iranian strike on residential building in Haifa
In the Israeli city of Haifa, two bodies have been recovered and two people remain missing, as search crews comb the rubble of a six-story residential building damaged in an Iranian missile attack on Sunday, Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom said.
Rescuers workers were at the site through the night searching for the four people, who the Israeli military believe did not have time to reach a protected area as the missile approached.
“The hit on Haifa was the result of a ballistic missile weighing several hundred kilograms,” an Israeli military spokesperson told CNN on Monday, adding that interceptors launched at the missile had all missed.
Brig. Gen. Elad Edri, the Home Front Command’s chief of staff earlier said “many more” people had been wounded in the strike and were taken to hospital for treatment. He called it a “major destruction site.”
Emergency workers had to move large pieces of concrete “with our hands” to rescue an 82-year-old man, Shevach Rothenshtrych, a senior EMT with Magen David Adom told CNN on Sunday.
Occupants of the building who survived had told emergency workers that “there were casualties trapped under the rubble on the lower floors,” Rothenshtrych said.
A total of 163 people across Israel were taken to hospital in the past day, according to its health ministry on Monday.
This post has been updated with additional information.
One foreigner injured as Gulf nations face fresh attacks
Gulf nations continued fending off attacks from Iran early Monday, after weeks of constant bombardment. Many of these nations had cautioned Washington about the consequences of waging war on Iran before the war broke out.
Here’s the latest:
- United Arab Emirates: A Ghanian national was wounded by falling debris from an intercepted projectile in Abu Dhabi on Monday, according to the city’s government media office. The UAE Ministry of Defense also posted earlier Monday morning that it was intercepting missiles and drone threats, noting that the sound of interceptions may be heard “across the country.”
- Kuwait: The army posted on Monday morning that its air defenses are intercepting “hostile missile and drone threats.”
- Saudi Arabia: The Ministry of Defense said it intercepted two drones on Monday morning.
At least ten killed in overnight attacks on Lebanon
At least ten people were killed and dozens were wounded in overnight attacks on Lebanon, according to state media reports.
Five people, including a 15-year-old, were killed in an Israeli attack on southern Beirut’s Jnah neighborhood, the National News Agency said, while three people were killed in a strike on Ain Saade, northeast of the city. The news agency said an airstrike also killed a husband and wife and wounding their two children, 9 and 15, near Toul, south of Beirut.
Israel’s military said it had struck “launchers and weapons storage facilities concealed within structures and civilian infrastructure” in Lebanon, in a statement on Monday.
Israel has been targeting Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon since early March. The death toll from its strikes and ground invasion has now reached 1,461 people, Lebanon’s health ministry said.
Hezbollah continues to fire rockets at Israel, saying it launched more than two dozen attacks on Sunday and four on Monday.
By last Friday, more than 80 towns and villages in Lebanon had been emptied and more than 15% of the country’s population left displaced, the health ministry said Friday.
On Sunday, Eighteen far-right Israeli lawmakers, including some from the ruling Likud party, demanded that Israel’s military expand its plans to destroy villages along the Lebanese border and expel their inhabitants.
North Korea may be trying to distance itself from Iran, says South Korean spy agency
North Korea may be trying to distance itself from Iran, a country it has traditionally been friendly with, said South Korea’s intelligence agency, according to a lawmaker.
South Korean lawmaker Park Sun-won attended a parliamentary briefing by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Monday. Afterward, he said the agency believes North Korea so far hasn’t provided any weapons or materials to Iran.
There are clues Pyongyang is trying to maintain some distance. For instance, it did not send a condolence message when Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli strikes, and it did not congratulate Mojtaba Khamenei when he was named the new leader, said Park, citing the NIS.
This might be an effort to “secure new diplomatic space” ahead of the expected summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping in May, Park said. China is one of North Korea’s closest partners.
Another lawmaker, Lee Seong-kwon, added that North Korea appears to be refraining from directly criticizing Trump in the run-up to the meeting.
Earlier in February, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told the Ninth Workers’ Party Congress that “there is no reason not to get along well with the US,” signaling that he appears to be managing his messages in a bid to keep good relations with Trump, said Park.
NIS found that North Korea is facing significant economic difficulties as a result of the Middle East conflict, with disruptions to securing industrial materials, rising prices and a surging exchange rate, Park told reporters, adding that the country is trying to secure additional oil supplies from Russia.
This post has been updated with additional information.
Iranian embassies post critical, tongue-in cheek responses to Trump threat
Iranian embassies around the world posted critical, tongue-in-cheek responses on X to President Donald Trump’s profanity-laced warning over the Strait of Hormuz.
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH!” Trump posted to Truth Social on Sunday morning. He later appeared to set a new deadline, writing “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!”
What some of them said:
- The Iran Embassy in South Africa said: “Seriously think about the 25th amendment, Section 4,” in an apparent reference to the constitutional provision which allows for the Vice President and the majority of Cabinet to declare the President unfit for office, thus putting the VP in charge.
- “!Take it easy, tiger . (sic) Keep your cool,” wrote the Iran Embassy in Bulgaria.
- “#POTUS has stooped to an unprecedented level of begging, laced with bitter, hollow rudeness and threats. The desperation is almost palpable, dripping from every syllable—especially the haphazardly hurled expletives,” said the Iran Embassy in Austria, noting that attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime. It added: “A further warning: shield all minors under 18 from exposure to #Trump’s rhetoric.”
- The Iran Embassy in the United Kingdom quoted the common proverb: “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” It also said Trump’s threat was a “sign of weakness & SICKNESS.”
- The Iran Embassy in Zimbabwe posted a list of examples of “presidential decorum,” which included “respectful and measured language in public statements.”
- “Swearing and throwing insults are how sore loser brats behave. Get a grip on yourself, old man!” wrote the Iran Embassy in India.
Six children among those killed in strikes on Tehran overnight, state media says
New video posted to Telegram by the Iranian Red Crescent Society shows rescue crews digging through rubble at what the aid agency describes as the site of an airstrike in a residential area of Tehran.
The video was posted in the early hours of Monday morning local time, but it is not clear exactly where or what time the footage was filmed.
Six children under 10 were killed in overnight Israeli-US strikes on Iran, according to the semi-official Mehr news.
At least 13 people were killed in an early Monday attack on two residential buildings in Baharestan County, a densely populated area southwest of Tehran, Baharestan’s governor said, according to Iranian state media Fars.
Search efforts are ongoing to rescue any individuals still trapped under the rubble, Fars reported.
And in eastern Tehran, four people were killed and seven injured an early Monday morning attack on residential areas there, reported Mehr news. Rescue teams were still searching through rubble, it added.
Meanwhile, video posted on social media showed the aftermath of an attack on the street close to the Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. CNN was able to geolocate the video by matching the minarets seen in the video and the layout of the buildings with satellite imagery.
In a short statement published early Monday morning local time, the Israel Defense Forces said it carried out a “wave of strikes” on targets in Tehran.
Trump and Iran traded threats over Strait of Hormuz. Here's what they said
President Donald Trump appeared to set a new deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, writing on social media on Sunday afternoon, “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!”
The post comes after he wrote just hours earlier that “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”
In a profanity-laced social media post, Trump threatens Iran over its closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which has been closed since the war began. CNN's Betsy Klein reports.
Iranian officials also issued their own threats as Trump doubled down on his ultimatum over the vital waterway. Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf accused Trump of pushing the US toward “a living HELL” and warned the region could “burn.”
He added: “Make no mistake: You won’t gain anything through war crimes. The only real solution is respecting the rights of the Iranian people and ending this dangerous game.”
Mehdi Tabatabaei, deputy for communications at Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s office, said Trump has resorted to profanity “out of sheer desperation and rage.”
“The Strait of Hormuz will reopen only when, under a new legal regime, the damages from the imposed war are fully compensated from a portion of the transit toll revenues,” Tabatabaei posted on X.
Satellite images show cratered roads in area where US staged F-15 crew rescue
Newly released satellite imagery from Airbus shows multiple craters along roads in the area where the second downed US airman was extracted on Sunday.
The satellite images show at least 28 craters along several roads in central Esfahan province, around 20 kilometers from a remote airstrip where US forces destroyed their own aircraft after they became damaged.
The craters, which appear one after another along roadways, were around 9 meters wide — just large enough to destroy the width of the roads that appeared to have been targeted with deliberate precision.
CNN earlier reported that as American special operations forces converged on the mountainside where the downed officer had been hiding, US planes conducted strikes in the area to ensure Iranian forces could not get there first.
How US forces rescued downed F-15 crew member from Iran
Hiding alone in a mountain crevice behind enemy lines, the injured American airman knew exactly what to do: survive and evade.
For more than a day, the weapons systems officer whose F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down inside Iran avoided being captured by encroaching Iranian forces. At one point, he scaled the rugged terrain to a ridgeline 7,000 feet above sea level, equipped with little more than a pistol, a communication device and a tracking beacon.
CNN's Jim Sciutto breaks down what we know about the US military's dangerous and complex mission to rescue an airman who went down in Iran.
It was into the high mountains that a team of American commandos, accompanied by US aircraft dropping bombs to clear the area, swarmed to locate the officer, bringing him and themselves to safety.
Two US officials described the details of the risky operation afterward.
It involved hundreds of American military and intelligence personnel, including special operations forces who carried out the successful rescue mission, and CIA operatives who mounted a deception campaign beforehand to throw off potential Iranian captors.
And it came with multiple twists, including a pair of damaged US special operations aircraft that the US had to blow up on the ground in Iran during the operation.
The race to find and recover the officer had quickly become an all-consuming endeavor for the administration after the fighter jet was shot down on Friday. The pilot of the plane was found quickly, but the White House and Pentagon refused to confirm the rescue as a second, more prolonged mission to find his crewmate was underway.
Read the full account here.
The numerous deadlines Trump has set for fully opening the Strait of Hormuz
US President Donald Trump appeared to set a new ultimatum for Iran yesterday, writing on social media “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!” The message came hours after he repeated his vow to bomb key Iranian infrastructure if the country did not fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The threat is the latest from the US leader since his country, alongside Israel, began striking Iran in late February.
Trump has repeatedly shifted his stated deadline for the reopening of the strait, a vital waterway that Iran has effectively closed in retaliation for the US-Israeli attacks, choking off around one-fifth of the world’s oil supply from global energy markets.
The president has also put pressure on European countries to commit resources to reopening the shipping lane.
Here’s a recap of Trump’s statements on the strait since the war began:
- Trump’s initial threat was on March 21, when he said the US would “hit and obliterate” Iranian power plants if Tehran did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours. The next day, Iran’s representative to the UN maritime agency said the strait remained open to all except Iran’s “enemies.”
- On March 23, shortly before Trump’s deadline was set to expire, the president said his country and Iran had held “productive conversations” over the previous two days and that he would hold off on striking energy sites for five days.
- On March 26, Trump added an extra ten days to the deadline, saying Iran had asked for more time, making his new cut-off date April 6.
- On April 1, Trump said Tehran had asked the US for a ceasefire, adding he would only consider this after Iran had reopened the Strait of Hormuz. A spokesperson for Iran’s foreign ministry denied this claim.
- Two days later, Trump suggested the US could “easily” reopen the strait if it had “a little more time.”
- On April 4, Trump told Iran’s leaders that “time is running out” to reopen the waterway. “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out - 48 hours before all Hell will reign (sic) down on them,” he wrote on social media.
CNN’s Betsy Klein, Kit Maher, Alejandra Jaramillo, Kevin Liptak, Samantha Waldenberg, Aileen Graef, Sophie Tanno, Adam Pourahmadi and Julia Benbrook contributed to this reporting.
Trump will hold news conference from White House briefing room today
President Donald Trump will take reporters’ questions from the White House briefing room at 1 p.m. ET today.
The president will appear alongside military officials and address the rescue of a missing US airman in Iran.
Yesterday, Trump announced he would hold the news conference from the Oval Office, meaning that only a smaller group of White House pool reporters would be present.
Trump has appeared in the briefing room before, most recently holding an impromptu press conference earlier this year after the US Supreme Court struck down his emergency tariffs.
Pakistan and Egypt are facilitating communications between Iran and US, source says
Pakistan and Egypt are among the countries channeling communications between US and Iranian officials, a Pakistani official source told CNN on Sunday.
The news comes as US President Donald Trump appeared to set a new deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz before the United States begins targeting Iranian power facilities. Trump told Axios on Sunday that his special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are in negotiations with Iran.
Pakistan’s foreign ministry said in a social media post on Saturday that Foreign Minister Mohammed Ishaq Dar had spoken with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi.
During the call, Dar “reiterated Pakistan’s support for all efforts aimed at de-escalation and underscored the importance of resolving issues through dialogue and diplomacy.”
What we know about the war, as it enters 6th week
It’s been an eventful weekend, as the US-Israel war with Iran stretches into a sixth week. US President Donald Trump has once again issued a new ultimatum for Tehran, after a successful high-stakes mission to rescue a US service member stranded in Iran after his jet was shot down.
Here’s the latest:
- Trump’s deadline: Trump appeared to set a new deadline for Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz. “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time,” he wrote, after issuing a profane message renewing threats to bomb key Iranian infrastructure, including power plants, if Tehran does not comply. Targeting critical civilian infrastructure could be considered a war crime.
- Tehran’s response: Senior Iranian officials issued their own threats in response and said the strait will remain blocked until Iran receives payment for war damages.
- Daring rescue operation: The US airman shot down over Iran evaded capture for more than a day, hiding alone and scaling rugged terrain, officials told CNN. The massive rescue effort involved hundreds of American military and intelligence personnel, including special operations forces and CIA operatives who mounted a deception campaign to throw off potential Iranian captors.
- Trump press conference: Trump said he would speak to reporters about the rescue operation at a news conference in the White House at 1 p.m. ET Monday.
- Strikes in Israel: Two people were killed after an Iranian strike on a residential building in Haifa, Israeli media Haaretz reported. Separately, videos captured by a CNN producer in Jerusalem early Monday showed missiles traveling through the night sky.
- Attack in Iran: At least 13 people were killed in a US-Israeli attack on two residential buildings in Baharestan County, reported state media.
- Toll in Lebanon: At least 11 people, including a 4-year-old girl, were killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, local officials and media said. Meanwhile, some Israeli far-right lawmakers say the military’s plan to destroy Lebanese border villages doesn’t go far enough – demanding that Israel draw a “new security border” and expel hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians who live south of the proposed line.
