Another Day….
Another CONTINUATION of the ‘War’….
Talk and Bombings. (less from Iran its reported)…
Trump throws out crazy shit….
Just wants to ‘take the oil’?…..
Or?
Charge US ‘Protection’ money fee for the strait passage?
Pats HIMSELF on the back for US Military effort by the ‘troops’ to get a downed airman back….
Follows his guy Hegseth in calling this a ‘HOLY’ Religious War (against a Muslim Country?)
Trump can’t tell you when ‘his war ‘will end?
Iran won’t accept a ceasefire that doesn’t have Trump pack up and leave in defeat….
And?
Is JD Vance Staying outta sight for his 2028 run?
US ‘Toll’s’ for Hormuz transit added to the Iran ‘tolls’?
President Trump suggested Monday that the U.S. could impose its own tolls on vessels trying to transit through the Strait of Hormuz — a strategy employed by Iran as it continues to control the key energy shipping choke point.
During a White House press conference, a reporter asked Trump whether he would end the war while Iran was continuing to charge tolls for passage through the strait.
“What about us charging tolls?” Trump responded.
“I’d rather do that than let them have them,” he added. “Why shouldn’t we? We’re the winner.”…..
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President Trump on Monday escalated his threats to devastate Iran if it does not agree to a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by his Tuesday night deadline, even as he again floated the possibility that there could be a diplomatic resolution to the war.
“We have a plan, because of the power of our military, where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o’clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again,” Mr. Trump said at a White House news conference. If the attacks take place, he added, “It will take them 100 years to rebuild.”
Mr. Trump also gave a laudatory depiction of the rescue of a missing American airman shot down over Iran. The mission involved 155 aircraft and hundreds of people, he said, though “a lot of it was subterfuge” designed to lead Iranian forces away from the aviator. He also revealed that the plane, a U.S. Air Force F-15E, had been downed by a single shoulder-fired missile.
His remarks to reporters came after Iran delivered a new 10-point peace proposal dotted with conditions that American representatives have already rejected as unacceptable. The full contents of the Iranian plan were not made public, but diplomatic efforts have yielded little so far, despite Mr. Trump’s repeated claims of progress.
“We have to have a deal that’s acceptable to me,” Mr. Trump said of the Iranian plan, which was made through Pakistani mediators, adding, “and part of that deal’s going to be we want free traffic of oil, and everything else.”
Later he said, “I can tell you that we have an active, willing participant on the other side. They would like to make a deal.”
He has threatened repeatedly to bombard critical Iranian infrastructure, like power plants and bridges, setting deadlines for opening the strait, and then repeatedly postponing them. On Sunday, he pushed back the deadline by a day, to Tuesday evening in the United States. Analysts say that without tangible progress toward peace, the postponements risk eroding the power of his warnings.
Here’s what else we’re covering:
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Iran’s response: Iran said on Monday that it would retaliate forcefully if President Trump carried out his threatened attacks, which would affect millions of civilians, in what many legal experts argue could be considered war crimes under international law. “If attacks on civilian targets are repeated, the subsequent phases of our offensive and retaliatory operations will be carried out much more crushingly and extensively,” Ebrahim Zolfaghari, an Iranian military spokesman, said on Monday.
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University bombed: Overnight airstrikes hit Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran’s top science, engineering and math institute, prompting outraged responses from Iranians, including opponents of the regime. The university is under Western sanctions for ties to the Iranian military and agencies that develop weapons systems.
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Rescued airmen: The two U.S. airmen who were rescued after being shot down over Iran were receiving care at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, a military hospital in Germany, a U.S. military official said.
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Attacks across the Middle East: Israel said it had bombed a major Iranian petrochemical complex on Monday, just days after it struck a similar site — part of an avowed goal to destroy factories that fill Iran’s coffers. Another Israeli strike overnight killed Majid Khademi, the intelligence chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Iran fired volleys of missiles at its neighbors and at Israel, where rescue workers retrieved the bodies of four people killed by a missile strike in Haifa, according to the Israeli authorities.
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More on the Hegseth inspired Iran Religious ‘Holy War’?
CNN: “Far from shying away from the idea that there is a religious aspect to the US-Israeli war on Iran, US government leaders are leaning into it, invoking God and promising fire and brimstone for Iran’s civil society if its leaders do not buckle to US demands.”
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday likened the rescue on Easter Sunday of a missing American airman shot down over Iran to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ,” the New York Times reports.
“Minutes later, speaking at the same news conference describing the military operation, President Trump asserted that God supports the Israeli-U.S. war against Iran, which has killed thousands, including many civilians.”
Said Trump: “Because God is good, and God wants to see people taken care of.”
Washington Post: Trump says God supports U.S. cause in Iran war as he threatens wider bombing.
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The Guardian….
The president’s comments come as diplomatic negotiations aimed at halting the war in the Middle East appear to be faltering.
Trump also said Iran “can be taken out in one night, and that might be tomorrow night”, while reiterating his Tuesday deadline of 8pm Eastern Time for the regime to reopen the strait of Hormuz or face a barrage of strikes on energy facilities and bridges.
Defence secretary Pete Hegseth said that under Trump’s direction, “today will be the largest volume of strikes since day one of this operation”. He added: “Tomorrow, even more than today.”
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Trump claims, without proof, Iranians welcome US strikes on infrastructure
Donald Trump on Monday claimed that Iranian civilians were actively welcoming US strikes on their country’s infrastructure, saying they would be “willing to suffer” the loss of power and basic services in order to achieve freedom from the Islamic Republic.
Speaking to reporters from the White House press room, Trump dismissed concerns that targeting Iran’s power grid and civilian infrastructure would punish ordinary Iranians rather than the regime, saying without evidence that US intelligence had intercepts of civilians near active bombing sites urging American forces to continue.
“Please keep bombing,” Trump quoted intercepted communications as saying, adding: “These are people that are living where the bombs are exploding.”…..
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ISW…Iran Update Special Report, April 6, 2026
- Iran rejected a ceasefire agreement with the United States to pause the war and “reopen” the Strait of Hormuz on April 6. Iran’s rejection of the latest ceasefire proposal reduces the likelihood that the United States and Iran will reach an agreement by US President Donald Trump’s April 7 deadline. Trump has maintained his threat to strike Iranian energy infrastructure and bridges if Iran does not agree to a deal by April 7.
- Iran, Hezbollah, and the Houthis appear to have coordinated an attack targeting Israel on April 6, possibly to try to maximize the psychological effects of Iran’s limited ability to conduct large-scale attacks against Israel. The timing of these attacks suggests that the attacks were coordinated to some degree, given the vastly different travel times of the munitions fired at Israel by Hezbollah, Iran, and the Houthis.
- The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed on April 6 that it has struck Iran’s two largest petrochemical facilities in the past week that account for 85 percent of Iranian petrochemical exports. The IDF reported that the South Pars Complex contained infrastructure to produce explosives and propellant for ballistic missiles.
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Trump’s Vice President is Missing in Action…..
Vice President JD Vance is on standby, prepared to jump into sensitive negotiations with Iran if backchannel talks advance to the point of a direct meeting with Iranian officials.
The talks, currently, are led by Steve Witkoff, the president’s special envoy, and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, but Vance could be tagged in if the pair make sufficient progress, according to a person familiar with the talks granted anonymity to discuss them. It is not clear what Iran might need to offer.
The role, which was hinted at by President Donald Trump on Monday, reflects how Vance has found a lane in the conflict, emerging as an important player as the White House searches for a way to end the war….
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