Iran-US war latest: Trump tells Tehran to ‘open the Strait or you’ll be living in hell’ in swear-laden rant-Breaking News, Latest Updates

Russia expressed hope on Sunday that efforts to de-escalate the Iran ⁠conflict would bear fruit and said the US would contribute by “abandoning the language of ultimatums and ⁠returning the ​situation to ⁠a negotiating track”.

The Russian Foreign Ministry statement ⁠was issued after a conversation between ​Russian ⁠Foreign Minister ‌Sergei Lavrov and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi.

It said both sides “called ‌for efforts to ‌avoid actions, including in the UN Security Council, that could undermine ⁠the remaining chances for advancing political and diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis.”

Russia, it said, backed efforts to de-escalate tensions “in the interests of long-term and sustainable normalisation ‌of the situation in ​the Middle East, which ‌would be facilitated ⁠by the United States abandoning ⁠the language of ultimatums and returning ‌the situation ​to a ‌negotiating track”.

Tehran has vowed to reciprocate attacks on its infrastructure and target similar infrastructure linked to the US, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson has said, according to WANA news agency.

A US senator has described Donald Trump as a “deeply unwell man on a dangerous power trip, threatening possible war crimes”.

In a post on X following the US president’s latest Truth Social rant, Senator Patty Murray added: “This is not how the President of the United States should be speaking about sending our servicemembers into harm’s way.”

US central command has confirmed the rescue of both F-15E crew members in Iran after their fighter jet was shot down.

In a statement, it said: “On April 4, U.S. forces successfully completed the rescues of two American service members from Iran after their F-15E fighter jet was shot down April 2 during a combat mission.

“The service members were safely recovered during separate search and rescue missions.

“U.S. strikes into Iran continue as U.S. Central Command forces dismantle the Iranian regime’s ability to project power beyond its borders.”

Donald Trump has admitted he feared an Iranian trap after the downing of a US F-15E fighter jet and subsequent crew rescue operation, Axios has reported.

Donald Trump has stated “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!” in a post on Truth Social, suggesting this is the deadline by which he wants Iran to have made a deal to end the conflict.

US president Donald Trump said his deadline for Iran to ⁠open the Strait of Hormuz or face attacks on critical infrastructure ⁠is ​Tuesday evening, ⁠according to an interview he ⁠gave to the ​Wall ⁠Street Journal ‌published on Sunday.

“If they don’t do something by ‌Tuesday evening, ‌they won’t have any power plants and ⁠they won’t have any bridges standing,” Trump told the Journal. In a social media post earlier on Sunday, ‌Trump had said ​Iran would ‌face infrastructure ⁠attacks if it did ⁠not open the strait ‌by ​Tuesday.

A former national security official has said that Donald Trump’s latest rant on Truth Social will fail in its attempts to “escalate to try to get a deal”.

Brett McGurk told CNN: “This is an escalate to try to get a deal, that’s not going to get a deal.

“With diplomacy with Iran, a lot of it is secret back channel, because they publicly posture, we publicly posture, it makes it very hard to achieve what he’s trying to achieve there.”

A missile strike has been launched by Iran on Israel, according to reports.

At least one residential building has been majorly damaged in the attack on the Northern Israeli city of Haifa, OSINTdefender said on X.

The Iranian parliament’s speaker has told Donald Trump “our whole region is going to burn because you insist on following Netanyahu’s commands”.

In a post on X, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf said: “Your reckless moves are dragging the United States into a living HELL for every single family, and our whole region is going to burn because you insist on following Netanyahu’s commands. Make no mistake: You won’t gain anything through war crimes.”

He added: “The only real solution is respecting the rights of the Iranian people and ending this dangerous game.”