A man walks past a banner depicting Iran\u2019s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, along a street in Tehran on April 5, 2026. Photo by \u2013 \/ AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTrump told Iran to stop choking traffic through Hormuz, warning it to open the Strait, \u201cor you\u2019ll be living in Hell,\u201d in his social media post.<\/p>\n
\u201cTuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n
Later, Trump told Fox News that he believed there was a \u201cgood chance\u201d that Iran would agree to a deal on Monday.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s warning came as the Omani and Iranian deputy foreign ministers reportedly held talks on easing passage through Hormuz.<\/p>\n
Many residents of Tehran seemed indifferent to Trump\u2019s threats.<\/p>\n
In a large park in the west of the city, a group of young Iranians was having a picnic.<\/p>\n
Nearby, two friends were playing with a Frisbee as techno music blared from a portable speaker.<\/p>\n
One man was making the most of a windy day by flying his kite in front of the Milad Tower, an iconic landmark of Tehran.<\/p>\n
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Abandoned Airport<\/strong><\/p>\nUS media reported on details of the rescue operation of the US airman, a weapons systems officer.<\/p>\n
The New York Times said he was equipped with a pistol, a beacon, and a secure communications device to coordinate with rescuers.<\/p>\n
Two of the planes meant to transport him and his rescuers to safety were stuck in a remote base in Iran and had to be destroyed to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands, the New York Times and CBS reported.<\/p>\n
US forces then used three other transport planes to carry the airman and his rescuers out of Iran, the reports said.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s military said it had destroyed four US aircraft involved in the operation, which it said had made use of an abandoned airport in southern Isfahan province.<\/p>\n
Iranian media reported five people were killed in strikes during the operation.<\/p>\n
Footage released by Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was presented as showing charred wreckage of an American aircraft scattered across a desert area, with smoke still rising.<\/p>\n
Trump hailed a \u201cmiraculous Search and Rescue Operation\u201d and said it came \u201cin addition to a successful rescue of another brave Pilot, yesterday, which we did not confirm, because we did not want to jeopardise our second rescue operation\u201d.<\/p>\n
Iran has said its forces downed the fighter jet from which the crew had ejected, while US media reported only that the plane had been shot down.<\/p>\n
The US administration has not said publicly if it was downed or not.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\nSmoke rises from the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs, on April 5, 2026. Photo by IBRAHIM AMRO \/ AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Choose Peace\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\nCritical infrastructure across the Gulf came under attack from Iran again on Sunday, with damage reported at civilian facilities in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Kuwait.<\/p>\n
Pro-Iran armed groups also carried out two attacks on US diplomatic sites in Iraq overnight, the US embassy in Baghdad said.<\/p>\n
On another front, Lebanon has increasingly been drawn into the conflict since the Iran-backed Hezbollah group began targeting Israel.<\/p>\n
Israel has struck back and pushed its ground forces into southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n
A source from the Lebanese civil defence told AFP that an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon\u2019s Kfar Hatta killed a family of six waiting to evacuate and a relative who had come to pick them up.<\/p>\n
Another Israeli strike on south Beirut killed at least four people, the Lebanese health ministry said.<\/p>\n
The war has cast a pall over Easter Sunday celebrations for Christian minorities in Lebanon and across the region.<\/p>\n
In the usually lively alleyways of Jerusalem\u2019s Old City, silence reigned on Sunday.<\/p>\n
As a security precaution, Israeli authorities have restricted access to the Holy Sepulchre, where the faithful commemorate Christ\u2019s crucifixion and resurrection.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very hard for all of us because it\u2019s our holiday\u2026 It\u2019s really hard to want to pray, but to come here and find nothing. Everything is closed,\u201d said Christina Toderas, 44, from Romania.<\/p>\n
In his Easter blessing at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV urged \u201cthose who have the power to unleash wars\u201d to \u201cchoose peace\u201d instead and criticised global indifference to \u201cthe deaths of thousands of people\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Bushehr Nuclear Plant<\/strong><\/p>\nIn Iran, a strike near the Bushehr nuclear plant on Saturday killed a guard and led Russia, which partly constructed the facility and helps operate it, to announce it was evacuating 198 workers and to condemn the strike as \u201can evil deed\u201d.<\/p>\n
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that continued attacks on the plant on the southern coast could eventually lead to radioactive fallout that would \u201cend life in GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) capitals, not Tehran\u201d.<\/p>\n
Bushehr is considerably closer to Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar than it is to the Iranian capital.<\/p>\n
Against the backdrop of war, Iran has kept up a crackdown weeks after it quelled a massive wave of anti-government protests, with the judiciary announcing the execution of two men convicted of acting on behalf of Israel and the United States.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, communications monitor Netblocks said Iran\u2019s internet blackout was now the longest nationwide shutdown in history.<\/p>\n
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AFP<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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