US president says ‘time is running out’ for Iran to open up the waterway in sinister threat to Tehran
Donald Trump has said Iran has 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz before “all Hell” will rain down on them.
Writing on Truth Social, he said: “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 down on them.
Glory be to GOD!
President DONALD J.
TRUMP.”
He appeared to confuse the spelling of “rain down” with “reign down” in his threat online.
The vital waterway was closed by Iran in the wake of the US -Israeli attacks, with only Iranian ships and a few other vessels permitted to pass through, leading to skyrocketing oil prices.
It comes as the US and Iran are in a race to find an American service member who went missing after Tehran struck down a F-15 fighter jet.
One of two crew members aboard the F-15 fighter jet has been rescued.
Iran is reportedly offering locals around £50,000 to anyone who hands over the missing pilot alive.
Trump told The Independent he is not yet ready to say what the US will do if Iranian forces get to the downed airman first.
“We hope that’s not going to happen,” the president said before ending the call shortly thereafter.
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Trump’s relationship with Starmer ‘significantly damaged’ in Iran war fallout
Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that his relationship with Donald Trump may be irrevocably damaged following another series of scathing remarks by the US president.
Kim Darroch, the former national security adviser, and a former British ambassador to the US, said the prime minister was “right to resist getting directly involved in Mr Trump’s Iran “war of choice”.
“But it has unquestionably done significant damage to his personal relationship with Trump,” he told The Guardian , adding that a “damaged Trump” could “lash out” with more tariffs.
US agents arrest niece of Iran's Qassem Soleimani after Rubio revoked green card
US federal agents have arrested the niece and grand-niece of late Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani after Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked their lawful permanent resident status, the State Department said on Saturday.
"Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter are now in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement," the State Department said in a statement after Rubio revoked their green cards.
Trump says Iran has 48 hours to open Strait of Hormuz before “all Hell” will rain down on them
President Donald Trump threatened to “reign down hell” on Iran within 48 hours unless the country opens the Strait of Hormuz.
“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 down on them.
Glory be to GOD!” Trump said in a Truth Social post Saturday.
Trump’s latest threat against the Iranian regime comes as the search for a missing U.S.
fighter pilot continues after an F-15 was shot down Friday.
Trump warns he’ll ‘reign down hell’ in 48 hours unless Iran opens Strait of Hormuz
Trump says Iran has 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz or 'all Hell' will rain down
Iran says area around nuclear power plant hit
Iran said the area around the Bushehr nuclear power plant has been attacked today for the fourth time during the current war.
Iran’s International Atomic Energy Agency said one of the site’s physical protection staff members was killed by a projectile fragment and that a building on site was affected by shockwaves and fragments.
Iran says strike hit close to its Bushehr nuclear facility as guard killed
Russia evacuates 198 more staff from Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant, agencies report
Russia's state nuclear company Rosatom evacuated a further 198 of its staff from Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant on Saturday, Russian news agencies reported.
Rosatom has been evacuating staff from the plant since the Iran war broke out at the end of February.
Saturday's evacuations had been planned before the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a post on X on Saturday that one of the plant’s physical protection staff was killed by a projectile fragment and that a building on site was affected by shockwaves and fragments.
Russian news agencies cited Rosatom chief Alexei Likhachev as saying that developments near the plant were unfolding in line with the worst-case scenario.
Likhachev said that the killed staff member was an Iranian national.
Rosatom said it had informed Russian President Vladimir Putin on the situation surrounding the plant, the TASS news agency cited Likhachev as saying.
New air defence system used to target US fighter jet, Iran says
Iran used a new air defence system on Friday to target a US fighter jet, Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya joint military command said on Saturday.
A spokesperson for the joint military command said the country would "definitely achieve full control" over its airspace, according to Iranian state media.
Trump won’t say what US will do if missing pilot in Iran is harmed: ‘We hope that’s not going to happen’
As U.S.
and Israeli forces search for an F-15 crew member forced to eject after being shot down over Iran , President Donald Trump isn’t yet ready to say what the U.S.
will do if the missing crew member is harmed.
In a brief Friday phone interview with The Independent , the president declined to say what his course of action might be if Iranian forces get to the downed airman — the first American aviator to be shot down over enemy territory since an A-10 “Warthog” pilot ejected into Iraq after being struck by a surface-to-air missile in April 2003, just weeks into Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Asked what he’d do if the pilot is captured or harmed by Iranians, Trump replied: "Well, I can't comment on it because — we hope that's not going to happen," and ended the call shortly thereafter.
Trump won’t say what US will do if missing pilot harmed in Iran
What history tells us about how Iran’s Revolutionary Guard would resist any US ground invasion
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has long exerted a strong, often underestimated power in the Middle East.
With around 190,000 members, plus an estimated 450,000 reserves in the Basij paramilitary, the largest component of Iran’s Armed Forces also controls much of the country’s politics, intelligence and economy.
After an Israeli airstrike assassinated the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28, US President Donald Trump called on the IRGC to lay down its arms in exchange for immunity.
IRGC forces refused the offer, and with many more of its leaders killed over the last month, it shows no sign of giving up.
As US ground forces deploy to the Middle East, it is imperative to understand that – despite a month of widespread US-Israeli bombing, damaged infrastructure, internal fractures and decimated leadership – the IRGC will likely resist any invasion of Iranian territory with tenacity.
Its history demonstrates why.
What history tells us about how Iran’s Revolutionary Guard would resist a invasion
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