4m agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 7:00pmThe latest news from the Iran war<\/p>\n
The US president has just wrapped up a press conference in the White House Press Briefing room.<\/p>\n
With that, here are the latest key points from the Iran war:<\/p>\n
Donald Trump says he stands ready to bomb Iran back to the “stone ages”. Speaking at a press conference, he says every bridge and power plant in Iran would be targeted if the regime does not accept a ceasefire deal by 8pm Tuesday, Washington time.Mr Trump has also re-iterated that NATO is a “paper tiger” and listed Australia as among the countries that did not come to the US’s aid in the initial days of the war.Meanwhile, Iran has rejected the 45-day ceasefire proposal, state media reported.Earlier, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vowed to avenge the death of their intelligence chief, Major General Majid Khademi, who was killed in an Israeli strike on Monday.Back at the White House, Mr Trump and senior administration and military officials have spoken at length about the rescue mission to save two personnel who were aboard an F-15 fighter jet that was shot down over Iran on Thursday, local time.<\/p>\n
Stay with us through the rest of this morning as we bring you the latest developments from our reporters and correspondents.<\/p>\n
19m agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 6:45pm<\/p>\n
Trump claims US has ‘won’ the war in Iran<\/p>\n
Donald Trump has told reporters in Washington that the United States has won the war in Iran.<\/p>\n
“We won,\u201d Trump told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are militarily defeated.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the only ceasefire deal he was willing to accept with Iran had to include free traffic of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, which has effectively been closed to ships since the war broke out.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to have a deal that\u2019s acceptable to me,” Trump said.<\/p>\n
28m agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 6:36pm<\/p>\n
Trump says he hopes US could help rebuild Iran<\/p>\n
When asked about what targets he may strike on Tuesday night if a ceasefire deal is not agreed to, Donald Trump says he is not willing to say.<\/p>\n
But he warns every bridge and power plant in the country would be hit in the span of four hours if Iran did not agree.<\/p>\n
“Every bridge will be decimated by 10 o’clock tomorrow night,” he says.<\/p>\n
“Do I want to destroy their infrastructure? No. It would take 100 years for them to rebuild.<\/p>\n
“We don’t want that to happen.<\/p>\n
“We may even get involved with helping rebuild their nation.”<\/p>\n
30m agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 6:34pmTrump criticises Australia and other allies over lack of help<\/p>\n
The US president is asked to give his\u00a0opinion on NATO through the course of this war, to which he reiterates that the alliance is a “paper tiger”.<\/p>\n
He then goes on to list other allies that have also refused to join the US in strikes against Iran.<\/p>\n
“Japan didn’t help us. Australia didn’t help us. South Korea didn’t help us. And then we get to NATO,” he says.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump adds that the disagreement over the lack of support was, in the end, due to the dispute between the United States and Europe over Greenland.<\/p>\n
“We want Greenland,” he says.<\/p>\n
44m agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 6:20pm<\/p>\n
Trump: ‘I can’t talk about a ceasefire’<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump has told reporters the US has “an active, willing participant on the other side” in regards to talks about a ceasefire with Iran.<\/p>\n
But when asked about whether Israel would be part of those ceasefire talks between the United States and Iran, Trump said: “I can’t talk about a ceasefire.”<\/p>\n
But he went on to say the US was continuing to negotiate on peace plans with Iran through notes “passed back and forth”.<\/p>\n
“They are negotiating, we think in good faith,” Trump said.<\/p>\n
He further reiterated the Tuesday night deadline he had given\u00a0Iran\u00a0to reach a deal with the US or return to the “stone ages”.<\/p>\n
“We’re giving them until tomorrow 8 o’clock Eastern time and after that they’re going to have no bridges, no power plants.<\/p>\n
“They’re at the weakest point they’ve ever been.”<\/p>\n
54m agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 6:10pm<\/p>\n
Iranians ‘should’ rise up, Trump says<\/p>\n
Donald Trump is asked by a reporter what he would do if Iranians overthrew their government.<\/p>\n
Noting that up to 45,000 people were killed by the regime during protests earlier this year, Mr Trump says he understands why people in Iran would be hesitant to protest.<\/p>\n
He goes into detail about how Iranian government snipers opened fire on protesters, suggesting many would be unwilling to protest in such circumstances.<\/p>\n
“They have lived so horribly,” he says.<\/p>\n
“The Persian people are a smart, brilliant people.<\/p>\n
“They want us to keep bombing, even if it jeapordises them.”<\/p>\n
But he says the US “has a plan” for the future of Iran, adding that he does not want to reveal to the media what it is.<\/p>\n
The president then reiterates that the US’s chief aim of the war is to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n
1h agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 6:00pm<\/p>\n
US warns strikes on Iran will escalate overnight<\/p>\n
US Defense Secretary\u00a0Pete Hegseth warned Iran was about to experience the largest volume of strikes since the war broke out overnight tonight.<\/p>\n
He told reporters during the White House briefing that the strikes would increase again\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Iran is six and a half hours behind AEST.<\/p>\n
It follows the president’s earlier comments that Iran “could be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night”.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump earlier brushed off concerns that hitting Iran’s power facilities, as he has threatened after a deadline expires this week, would be a war crime.<\/p>\n
“I’m not worried about it,” Trump told reporters at an Easter egg roll at the White House when asked what he would say to those who claim striking power plants would breach the laws of war.<\/p>\n
“You know the war crime? The war crime is allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” the president said.<\/p>\n
1h agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 5:41pm<\/p>\n
Hegseth praises work of US military, intelligence<\/p>\n
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is now speaking, and is heaping praise on the “warriors” involved in the US operation.<\/p>\n
He says personnel “moved swiftly and decisively into treacherous enemy terrain” to rescue the two personnel, in what were\u00a0“high-risk, high-stakes missions in the heart of enemy territory”.<\/p>\n
And he repeats earlier comments by both Donald Trump and his CIA director that the Iranians are “humiliated” that both service members were able to get out alive.<\/p>\n
“The Iranians are still asking themselves right now, how did the Americans do this?”<\/p>\n
Mr Hegseth then reveals that the first message sent by the second of the two service members to be rescued, when they finally activated their locator beacon, was: “God is good.”<\/p>\n
“Shot down on a Friday, Good Friday, hidden in a cave, a crevice all of Saturday, and rescued on Sunday,” Mr Hegseth says.<\/p>\n
He adds that the experience was: “A pilot reborn”.<\/p>\n
1h agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 5:41pm<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcf8: Donald Trump’s press conference<\/p>\n
Pictures are starting to flow from the White House Press Briefing room of Donald Trump’s news conference, courtesy of Reuters:<\/p>\n
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(Reuters: Kevin Lamarque)<\/p>\n
1h agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 5:40pm<\/p>\n
CIA director says deception campaign used to save US Air Force airman<\/p>\n
CIA Director John Ratcliffe is now speaking.<\/p>\n
He says the Iranians are “humiliated” by the US’s successful efforts to retrieve the two servicemembers.<\/p>\n
That includes finding one of the two personnel hidden in a crevice of a mountain, which Mr Ratcliffe says was invisible to the Iranians but not to the CIA.<\/p>\n
He says the US military then launched a “deception campaign” to confuse the Iranians and help increase the odds of getting the service member out alive.<\/p>\n
1h agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 5:32pm<\/p>\n
US completes 10,000 combat flights over Iran<\/p>\n
The US has carried out 10,000\u00a0combat flights over Iran since the war broke out on February 28.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump\u00a0said the US had also struck more than 13,000 targets in Iran during that time.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo body\u2019s ever seen anything like it,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
1h agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 5:25pm<\/p>\n
Trump thanks those involved in rescue operation<\/p>\n
The US president continues his detailed explanation of the rescue mission by thanking all those involved in the two rescues over the skies of Iran.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump notes that many of the aircraft came back from the mission riddled with bulletholes, as Iranian military personnel scoured the area for the two air force service members.<\/p>\n
“God was watching us \u2014 amazing.”<\/p>\n
He notes that Iran’s regime had put out a public notice, urging “millions of people” to search for one or both of the air force staff.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump also blasts a person who leaked details of the F-15 missions, saying they “put that man at great risk”.<\/p>\n
1h agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 5:17pmUS president says rescue of F-15 service members ‘very historic’<\/p>\n
Donald Trump begins his press conference by describing the US efforts to rescue two personnel aboard a US F-15 fighter jet that was shot down over Iran on Thursday, local time.<\/p>\n
He says the rescue was “very historic”, involving at least 150 military aircraft being flown over the skies of Iran to extract the fighter jet’s pilot and weapons officer.<\/p>\n
“We could’ve ended up with 100 dead as opposed to one or two,” he says of the operation, referring to the risk faced by those going in to retrieve the two service members.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump also reiterates a veiled threat to Iran, repeating his warning that he will order strikes on certain targets across the country if Tehran does not accept a peace deal by Tuesday night, US time.<\/p>\n
“The entire country could be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night.”<\/p>\n
1h agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 5:09pmDonald Trump is speaking now<\/p>\n
The US president is now addressing the White House Press Briefing Room in Washington DC.<\/p>\n
Stay with us as we bring you his comments.<\/p>\n
1h agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 5:05pm<\/p>\n
Israel strikes Iran’s largest petrochemical complex<\/p>\n
On Monday, local time, Israel said it had struck Iran’s largest petrochemical facility in Assaluyeh on Iran’s Gulf coast, where local media reported multiple explosions.<\/p>\n
Iran’s National Petrochemical Company said it was assessing the damage after a fire was brought under control at the plant, state media reported.<\/p>\n
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said it accounted for about 50 percent of Iranian petrochemical production worth “tens of billions of dollars”.<\/p>\n
Iranian media reported “minor damage” after a second complex near Shiraz in central Iran was also hit.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi warned against further strikes near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant, saying one recent impact hit just 75 metres (245 feet) from the perimeter.<\/p>\n
Reporting with AFP<\/p>\n
2h agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 4:47pm<\/p>\n
Iran vows revenge for intelligence chief’s death<\/p>\n
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards\u00a0have vowed to avenge the death of their intelligence chief,\u00a0Major General Majid Khademi, killed in an Israeli strike on Monday.<\/p>\n
“The malicious and desperate enemy should know that a major retaliatory strike by the IRGC Intelligence Organisation, under Operation ‘Crushing Revenge,’ awaits the planners and perpetrators of this crime,” Khademi’s agency said in a statement on their official Sepah News.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s military says it also killed the commander of the special operations unit of Iran’s\u00a0Quds Force, Asghar Bagheri,\u00a0in a strike.<\/p>\n
2h agoMon 6 Apr 2026 at 4:36pm<\/p>\n
White House press briefing room is overflowing<\/p>\n
By Americas editor John Lyons at the White House<\/p>\n
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Journalists began crowding into the briefing room well before Donald Trump was due to speak. (ABC News: John Lyons)<\/p>\n
A huge contingent of media \u2014 both American and foreign \u2014 have crowded into the White House briefing room in anticipation of Donald Trump’s appearance.<\/p>\n
Trump does not appear often in the briefing room \u2014 it’s normally the domain of the White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt.<\/p>\n
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ABC Americas editor John Lyons waits for Donald Trump’s press briefing. (ABC News: John Lyons)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lcimg-5f73f0d9-4dae-4d7f-9f6d-f8220e584b17.jpeg\")
President Donald Trump speaks to guests at the White House Easter Egg Roll with first lady Melania. (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)<\/p>\n