Iran has warned of a “more severe and expansive” response if President Trump follows through on his expletive-laden threat to strike energy infrastructure and bridges.
April 06, 2026, 2:27 PM EDT
What to know
- TRUMP NEWS CONFERENCE: President Donald Trump, alongside senior defense and intelligence officials, is holding a news conference on the rescue of an F-15E crew member whose jet was downed over Iran.
- CRUDE OIL JUMPS: The price of U.S. crude oil jumped from $112 to about $114 per barrel just since Trump began speaking, with the price of international Brent crude also rising, although less so.
- HORMUZ DEADLINE: Trump has indicated that tomorrow at 8 p.m. ET is his final deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, adding that Tehran had made a significant proposal but not gone far enough.
- NEW THREATS AHEAD OF DEADLINE: Iran has warned of a “more severe and expansive” response if Trump follows through on his expletive-laden threat to strike energy infrastructure and bridges.
- CEASEFIRE TALKS: A proposal for a 45-day ceasefire is "one of many things being discussed," a senior White House official told NBC News earlier today. Iran rejected the American proposal, emphasizing the need for a permanent end to the war, state news media reported.
- DEATH TOLL: More than 3,400 people have been killed across the Middle East. In Iran, Israeli and U.S. strikes have killed more than 1,900 people, according to the country’s deputy health minister. At least 1,400 people have been killed in Lebanon, and 23 have died in Israel. Thirteen U.S. service members have been killed, and two more died of noncombat causes.
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NEW UPDATES
5m ago / 2:27 PM EDT5 people killed and more than 50 wounded in Israeli strike in Beirut, health ministry says
Ammar Cheikh Omar and Mirna AlsharifAn Israeli strike in a residential neighborhood of Beirut killed five people and wounded 52, Lebanon's Public Health Ministry says.
Among those killed today were a 15-year-old girl and two Sudanese nationals, the ministry said in a statement today. Eight children were wounded, it added.
The ministry also reported a raid on a vehicle in Toul in the southern Lebanon's Nabatieh district, which killed a mother and father and wounded their children, aged 9 and 15.
12m ago / 2:21 PM EDT
'Assassination and crime' won't disrupt Iranian army, new supreme leader says
Mirna Alsharif"Assassination and crime" won't disrupt the Iranian armed forces as they fight against the U.S. and Israel, Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has said.
In a statement issued today expressing condolences to the family of Iranian Intelligence Chief Seyyed Majid Khademi, who was killed in an overnight attack, Khamenei said these incidents won't deter the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Mojtaba Khamenei has stayed out of the pubic eye since the assassination of his father, Ali Khamenei, and other family members at the start of the war. He was named as his father's replacement after his father's death.
22m ago / 2:10 PM EDT
Iranians ‘willing to suffer’ the destruction of their infrastructure
Megan Lebowitz
A reporter has asked Trump whether threatening to hit Iran’s infrastructure and cut off their power would punish the people for the actions of the regime.
“They would be willing to suffer that for their freedom,” Trump said, and that Iranians want the U.S. strikes to continue and that Iranians “want freedom.”
“They have lived in a world that you know nothing about,” he added. “It’s a violent, horrible world, where if you protest, you are shot.”
56m ago / 1:37 PM EDT
Trump threatens jail time if media does not provide information about a leaker
Megan Lebowitz
Trump said that someone leaked information about the rescue of the first service member in Iran before the second one had been brought to safety, adding, “We’re looking very hard to find that leaker.”
Trump said Iran did not know that a second service member was missing until the leaker shared information.
“All of a sudden, they know that there’s somebody out there,” he said of the Iranians. “They see all these planes coming in. It became a much more difficult operation because a leaker leaked that we have one, we’ve rescued one, but there’s another one out there that we’re trying to get.
“So actually, the country Iran, put out a major notice — you all saw it — offering a very big award for anybody that captures the pilot,” Trump said. “So in addition to a hostile, very talented, very good, very evil military, we had millions of people trying to get an award, so when you add that to it, but we have to find that leaker, because that’s a sick person.”
“We think we’ll be able to find it out,” Trump said of the leaker’s identity. “Because we’re going to go to the media company that released it, and we’re going to say, ‘National security, give it up or go to jail.’”
Trump did not specify which media company he was referring to. Any attempt to jail reporters over not giving up the identities of sources would almost certainly face immediate legal pushback.
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