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Donald Trump has threatened to blow up Iran’s oil wells and desalination plants unless a deal can be reached to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Writing on his Truth Social platform, the President said the US is in ‘serious discussions’ with a ‘more reasonable regime’ to end the war but said he will take action unless an agreement is made

‘Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately “Open for Business,” we will conclude our lovely “stay” in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet “touched,”’ Trump penned.

Here are the latest developments as the US-Israel war with Iran enters its fifth week:

• Donald Trump has threatened to blow up Iran’s power plants, oil wells, desalination plants and Kharg Island unless the Strait of Hormuz is reopened
• His latest remarks come hours after he told The Financial Times he could ‘take Iran’s oil’ and added Kharg Island could be overtaken ‘very easily’
• A power station worker in Kuwait was killed following a missile strike which caused significant damage at the energy site
• An Israeli oil refinery has caught fire after a missile strike
• Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confirm the death of navy commander Alireza Tangsiri after he was targeted in an Israeli airstrike last week
• Iran has restored electricity across Tehran and nearby areas after strikes damaged power grids and briefly disrupted supply, the deputy energy minister said
• Indonesia has confirmed that one of its peacekeepers was killed in Lebanon where Israel is fighting Iran-backed Hezbollah
• Attacks are continuing on Gulf states as Saudi Arabia intercepts five ballistic missiles while air defences have also been operating in Dubai
• Pakistan has said it is ready to broker and host ‘meaningful talks’ between the US and and Iran to bring an end to the war
• A teenager has become the sixth Israeli soldier killed in southern Lebanon since fighting broke out with Hezbollah on March 2

Stick with us as we bring you the latest developments throughout the day.

A man who crashed his pickup truck into a Detroit-area synagogue earlier in March was carrying out an attack inspired by Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, the FBI said Monday.

Ayman Ghazali made a video before the attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, saying he wanted to ‘kill as many of them as I possibly can,’ said Jennifer Runyan, head of the FBI in Detroit.

A week before the attack, Ghazali learned that four of his family members were killed in an Israeli airstrike in his native country of Lebanon, according to an official there. Ghazali was a US citizen.

Israel’s military said a brother, Ibrahim Ghazali, who was killed in the airstrike, was a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon.

US National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard told a Senate committee that Ayman Ghazali had family ties ‘to a Hezbollah leader.’

Israel’s Parliament on Monday passed a law approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis.

The bill’s passage marked the culmination of a yearslong push by Israel’s far-right to escalate punishment for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic offenses against Israelis.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to the chamber to vote yes in person.

The law makes the death penalty – by hanging – the default punishment for West Bank Palestinians convicted of nationalistic killings.

The law also gives Israeli courts the authority to impose either the death penalty or life imprisonment on their own citizens.

It is not retroactive and will apply only to future cases.

The measure has been harshly condemned by Israeli and Palestinian rights groups, who say it is racist, draconian, and unlikely to deter attacks by Palestinian attackers.

This was only the fourth written public statement from Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since he became the supreme leader following the killing of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s navy was killed last week in an Israeli airstrike, according to the United States and Israel, and Iran confirmed his death on Monday.

In remarks carried by state media, Khamenei described him as courageous and central to Iran’s role in the Persian Gulf.

Commodore Alireza Tangsiri died for his country, Khamenei said, so that its military ‘may continue on the path of Iran’s maritime authority and resistance stronger and more firmly than in the past.’

A leading Israeli human rights group has filed a petition with the country’s Supreme Court challenging a bill just approved by lawmakers that would permit the execution of Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks.

‘The Association for Civil Rights in Israel filed a petition today to the High Court of Justice demanding the annulment of the Death Penalty for Terrorists Law, enacted by the Knesset today, March 30, 2026,’ the rights group said in a statement shortly after lawmakers passed the bill.

France has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council following ‘the extremely serious incidents’ targeting UN peacekeepers in Lebanon.

At least three UN troops have been killed this week, including one from Indonesia.

‘Such attacks near UN peacekeeping positions are unacceptable and unjustifiable,’ Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said, adding France is calling ‘for a full investigation into the circumstances of these tragedies’.

The peacekeeper from Indonesia was the first from the UN’s peacekeeping force, known as UNIFIL, to be killed in the new war between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, which erupted on March 2.

The Israeli military has issued evacuation warnings to residents of six villages in Lebanon’s western Bekaa region, urging civilians to leave ahead of possible military operations, in the first such warning for those areas.

The military said the warning was prompted by what it described as activity by fighters in the area, without providing further details.

More than 1.2 million Lebanese civilians have been forced from their homes.

Activities by the Hezbollah militant group ‘are forcing the IDF to act forcefully against them in these areas,’ Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic language spokesman, said in a post on X. ‘We do not intend to harm you.’

He added that residents from Zalaya, Lbaya, Yahmar, Sahmar, Qalaya, and Dalafi should move north of the town of Qaraoun in the Bekaa Valley.

‘Any movement south could endanger your lives,’ he said.

Human rights groups have raised the alarm over Israel’s forced displacement orders, stressing that many families have nowhere to go as Lebanon’s shelters are full.

When asked about reports that American-made landmines have been spotted on the ground in Iran and whether Trump signed off on using landmines in Iran, Leavitt said: ‘I don’t have any comment on that report today.’

When asked whether landmines are being used at all, Leavitt again declined to answer, saying: ‘I don’t have any comment on that.’

Israeli soldiers inspect debris believed to be part of a missile launched from Iran that fell in the Kafr Manda town in Nazareth, northern Israel, on March 30.