Trump threatens four-hour obliteration of Iran tomorrow night

Iran has formally objected to a ceasefire proposal put forward by Pakistan, Iranian state media is reporting.

The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reports Iran wants a permanent end to the war instead.

According to the IRNA, Iran has called for an end to hostilities in the region, new protocols regarding passage through the Strait of Hormuz and sanctions to be lifted.

It comes after Pakistan put together a framework to end hostilities and exchanged it with Iran and the US overnight.

The proposal includes an immediate ceasefire followed by an agreement to permanently end the war.

President Donald Trump has issued a new threat to Iran, promising to ‘blow everything up and take over the oil’ if the country does not make a deal with the US soon.

During a phone call with Fox News’ chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst on Sunday morning, Trump told him he is considering taking far more drastic measures.

‘If they don’t reach a deal – and soon – I’m considering blowing everything up and taking control of the oil,’ Trump said, according to Yingst.

Trump’s latest threat comes just hours after he issued a foul-mouthed ran on social media, bizarrely ending the post with the phrase: ‘Praise be to Allah.’

He wrote in a Truth Social post early on Easter Sunday morning: ‘Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran.

‘There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F***in’ Strait, you crazy b*****ds, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.’

The commander-in-chief said Iran has until Tuesday at 8pm to accept the offer, he shared to Truth Social on Sunday afternoon.

Smoke rises after strikes on the Mahshahr Petrochemical Zone

Israel has struck a third petrochemical site in Iran ahead of a warning by Donald Trump to destroy the country’s power plants unless the Strait of Hormuz is reopened.

Israel’s defence minister Israel Katz said Israel had ‘powerfully struck’ facilities at Iran’s largest petrochemicals complex at South Pars gas field in Bushehr province in what marked a ‘severe economic blow’ to the Iranian regime.

Soon afterwards, Iranian authorities said strikes hit another site further north in Marvdasht with Fars news agency reporting a fire had been contained.

It comes after five people were killed and 170 others injured when Israel bombed the Mahshahr petrochemical zone in Khuzestan province on Saturday.

In March, Israel attacked Iran’s main energy source, the South Pars gas field and its infrastructure at the nearby Asaluyeh processing hub, prompting Iranian attacks on energy targets across the Middle East.

Asked if he would be willing to end the war with Iran charging tolls for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz, Mr Trump said: ‘What about us charging tolls?

‘I’d rather do that then let them have them. Why shouldn’t we. We are the winner. We won. They are militarily defeated.’

Donald Trump said NATO’s failure to unconditionally support the US in the war with Iran has left a ‘mark’ that ‘will never disappear in my mind’.

He added: ‘Now all of a sudden they want to send weapons’.

The president claimed the UK offered to send ‘two old broken aircraft carriers’ only after the US had ‘won’ against Iran.

‘I said we don’t even need them,’ Mr Trump added, before claiming British ships ‘barely work’.

He also hit out at Germany for their failure to join the offensive mission.

Mr Trump said: ‘How about Germany telling us it’s not their war. They wanted me to tell them everything about it.

‘If I told them they would have leaked it and we wouldn’t have been anywhere near as succesful.’

Donald Trump has claimed that Iran has executed up to 45,000 anti-regime protesters since the nationwide demonstrations against the government in January.

Trump added: ‘We can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon.

‘We have had regime change. we are dealing with better people, sharper, smarter people.

‘But we didn’t do this for regime change.’

He also attacked critics who accused him of not having a plan.

‘I have the best plan of all but I won’t tell you what it is.’

Pete Hegseth has said tonight will see the ‘largest number of strikes since day one’ of the war on Iran.

The Secretary of War said tomorrow will see ‘even more’.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has revealed the downed airman, who was missing in Iran after his F-15 jet was downed, managed to contact the US military after a day on the run.

His first message simply said: ‘God is good’.

Speaking about the mission, Mr Hegseth added: ‘None of this would have been possible without the courageous leadership and iron clad determination of President Trump.

‘The first of the two missions was an audacious daytime thunder run authorised in less than two hours – and it was authorised in the middle of the night. It was authorised immmediately without hesitation, audaciously.’

Donald Trump has threatened to arrest a journalist who leaked information about the missing airman in Iran.

The president said his administration is looking ‘very hard’ to find the person responsible for the leak

He said this is a matter of ‘national security’ before warning the reporter they will be imprisoned if they don’t reveal the ‘leaker’.

‘They put the mission at great risk,’ Trump said.

The director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, said the agency ‘executed a deception campaign to confuse Iranians’ during the rescue mission of the downed pilot.

The airman was concealed in a mountain crevice ‘invisible to the enemy’ before the CIA located him.

Mr Ratcliffe said the Iranians are ’embarassed and ultimately humiliated by success of the rescue mission’.

Donald Trump said the downed weapons officer followed his training to get as far away from the crash site as possible.

When a plane crashes in hostile territory, ‘they all head right to that site, you want to be as far away as you can,’ he said.

Trump added the officer was ‘bleeding profusely’ but was able climb mountainous terrain and contact US forces to communicate his location.

Rescuers mobilized a massive response that included subterfuge to confuse the Iranians about where they were looking.