00:01end to a dramatic search and rescue operation deep inside Iran. It began on Friday after Tehran
00:08shot down a US F-15 fighter jet. And this morning, President Trump announced US Special Forces had
00:15rescued a missing service member in a high-stakes mission. Meanwhile, the Islamic Republic continued
00:21its attacks on the Gulf this weekend, hitting further energy targets. I'm joined by Richard
00:26Haas, the President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Zannie Minton Beddoes,
00:31the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist. Richard, the American forces were able to do something
00:38extraordinary, really quite spectacular. But what the President is now asking them to do next
00:44appears to be to bomb the basic energy infrastructure, power plants that provide civilians with energy.
00:53That has traditionally been considered a war crime, and it's certainly on plain reading
00:59is a violation of the Geneva Convention. What do you think of this idea?
01:06Trump warns Iran to reopen Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday or face hell.
01:23President shifts deadline again for attacking power plants and bridges in expletive-ridden social media
01:29posts. Dear viewers, please like this news, share your comments, and don't forget to subscribe to
01:35MHM News for daily global updates. Donald Trump issued an expletive-laden warning on Sunday that
01:43Tehran had until Tuesday night to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or the US would obliterate Iran's
01:49power plants and bridges.
02:02Iran's Parliament Speaker responded with a warning that the US President's reckless moves
02:07would mean our whole region is going to burn.
02:11The latest threat of escalation in the five-week war followed the rescue of a second crew member
02:17of a downed F-15E fighter by US commandos, ending a two-day search after the warplane
02:24crashed in southwest Iran.
02:32Iran distributed images showing the wreckage of several aircraft, but did not deny that US forces
02:38had rescued the officer who had taken cover in a mountainous area while American special forces
02:44and Iranian troops raced to find him. Trump has extended deadlines at least twice for Iran to
02:50reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which has sent the price of oil shooting up, and shifted his deadline
02:56again from Monday to Tuesday in his expletive-laden post, before later making clear he meant Tuesday night.
03:18He said,
03:19Telling Fox News that negotiations were taking place.
03:22If they don't make a deal and fast, I'm considering blowing everything up and
03:27taking over the oil, he said.
03:33Trump has repeatedly said since the U.S.-Israeli war started on February 28th that
03:39Iran has
03:40to make a deal.
03:52Iran has acknowledged that messages have been passed between the two.
03:56•
04:02The speaker of the Iran parliament,
04:07responded to Trump's latest threats in a social media post.
04:10• Your reckless moves are dragging the United States into a living hell for
04:14every single family.
04:15• And our whole region is going to burn because you insist on
04:22On following Netanyahu's commands, he wrote,
04:36Trump posted a video of the police demolition warning Iran to cut a deal before there was nothing left.
04:44On Sunday, Trump told Axios that several days ago,
04:48the US and Iran were close to an agreement to hold direct negotiations.
04:57He said, but then they said they will meet us in five days.
05:06So I said, why five days? I felt they are not being serious. So I attacked the police.
05:12An engineer behind the business, Mastakshon interviewed on Iranian television, said,
05:18we made everything with our own know-how, workers and resources. I am ashamed of myself for not being able
05:29to help people use it.
05:30A civil engineer in Iran who worked on other significant infrastructure projects said that recent strikes on civilian infrastructure,
05:40all built with indigenous knowledge, had already made it impossible to conceal the facility toward the Iranian people behind the
05:52mask of mere opposition to the government.
05:56But it was the strike on the bridge that was most painful for him. As he said,
06:03it had no military, nuclear or government link. The target of the attack was nothing other than the Iranian fight.
06:12He said, a nation that has achieved such a level of self-sufficiency and productivity cannot be returned to the
06:27Stone Age.
06:36Make no mistake. You won't gain anything through war crimes.
06:40The only real solution is respecting the rights of the Iranian people and ending this dangerous game.
06:48Trump's expletive-laden post also drew criticism on Capitol Hill.
06:53Happy Easter, America! As you head off to church and celebrate with friends and family,
06:58the President of the United States is ranting like an unhinged madman on social media,
07:04the Democratic Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, said on X.
07:08He's threatening possible war crimes and alienating allies.
07:12This is who he is, but this is not who we are. Our country deserves so much better.
07:19The destruction on Thursday of the region's tallest bridge, hailed in Iran as an engineering marvel,
07:26pointed to a grim new phase of the war in which the U.S. President has threatened to throw Iran
07:31back to the Stone Ages.
07:42If these threatened attacks were to be carried out, they would constitute war crimes, said Hathaway.
07:50Immiserating the civilian population for bargaining leverage is not lawful.
08:01Iranian steel manufacturing sites, petrochemicals plants, universities, and medical facilities have all been bombed during the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign.
08:11About 81,000 civilian sites have been damaged, including 61,000 homes, 19,000 commercial sites, 275 medical centers, and
08:22nearly 500 schools, according to Iranian authorities.
08:26The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said Israel has destroyed 70% of Iran's steel production, claiming it was
08:34used for making missiles.
08:36He has also confirmed attacks on petrochemical plants.
08:40Iran has been able to take control of the Strait of Hormuz by threatening and attacking shipping passing through the
08:46waterway, providing a chokehold on the oil trade that is Tehran's strongest pressure point in the conflict.
08:52Iran continued to hit economic infrastructure across the Gulf over the weekend in response to the attacks, in acts that
09:00legal experts have also said are unlawful.
09:02On Sunday, it struck a petrochemicals complex in Bahrain.
09:06Video footage showed thick black smoke rising from the site.
09:19The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation said a number of its facilities had been targeted by Iranian drone attacks, resulting in fires
09:27and significant material losses.
09:29Kuwait also reported that two power and water desalination plants sustained significant material damage after being attacked by Iranian drones.
09:39The attack happened on the last day of the holidays to mark Iranian New Year, and according to reports, many
09:45families were picnicking nearby when missiles punched through the middle of the bridge, sending up a giant fireball.
09:51The day-trippers, who had pitched tents to enjoy the holiday, ran screaming.
09:56Local authorities said that 13 people were killed and 95 injured in the attack.
10:02The bridge had not yet been opened.
10:04It was so far known only as B1, ahead of an inauguration due in the summer.
10:16Trump escalates threat to hit Iranian power plants after U.S. rescues downed airmen.
10:30President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the
10:37country's leaders in an expletive-laden social media post.
10:42Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued
10:49a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for
10:56the transport of oil and gas, by Monday.
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