{"id":582574,"date":"2026-04-04T22:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582574\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:22:10","slug":"trump-says-iran-has-48-hours-to-make-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582574\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran has 48 hours to make deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maj.-Gen. (Ret’d) David Fraser speaks on the missing U.S. pilot after his fighter jet was shot down, the search efforts, and the impact it will have on the war. <\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Tehran had 48 hours left to cut a deal or face \u201call Hell\u201d, as U.S. and Iranian forces scrambled to find a downed American airman.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s latest threat came after a strike near an Iranian nuclear power plant prompted evacuations, and as Tehran announced fresh attacks and the Israeli military said it had detected another missile launch from Yemen.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards said they hit a commercial ship in Bahrain, as they maintained their tight grip on the Strait of Hormuz shipping lane and continued to strike economic targets in their Gulf neighbours they see as linked to the US-Israeli war effort.<\/p>\n

The economic strikes are also going the other way. An Israeli or US strike on a petrochemical hub in the southwest of Iran killed five people, according to the deputy governor of Khuzestan province.<\/p>\n

The war erupted more than a month ago with U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, triggering a retaliation that has spread the conflict throughout the Middle East and convulsed the global economy — particularly due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital conduit for oil and gas.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social, referring to an ultimatum issued on March 26.<\/p>\n

\u201cTime is running out — 48 hours before all Hell will reign (sic) down on them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Lebanon Israel Iran War Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo\/Mohammed Zaatari) <\/p>\n

Tehran said on Friday it had shot down an F-15 warplane and U.S. media reported United States special forces had rescued one of its two crew members, with the other still missing.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s military also said it downed a U.S. A-10 ground attack aircraft in the Gulf, with U.S. media saying the pilot of that plane was rescued.<\/p>\n

The local Mehr news agency on Saturday quoted the deputy governor of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, Fattah Mohammadi, as saying the search for the missing pilot involved \u201cpresence of popular forces and tribesmen alongside military forces and is still ongoing\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added that \u201clast night, people fired at enemy helicopters with rifles and did not allow them to land\u201d.<\/p>\n

Images posted on social media and verified by AFPTV showed Iranian police firing at a U.S. helicopter in southwestern Iran as U.S. forces searched for the airman.<\/p>\n

Retired U.S. brigadier general Houston Cantwell, who has 400 hours of combat flight experience, said a pilot\u2019s training would likely kick in before he or she parachuted to the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy priority would be, first of all, concealment, because I don\u2019t want to be captured,\u201d he told AFP.<\/p>\n

\"\"US Iran War FILE – An F-15E Strike Eagle turns toward the Panamint range over Death Valley National Park, Calif., on Feb. 27, 2017. (AP Photo\/Ben Margot, File) Bushehr nuclear plant<\/p>\n

A strike near Iran\u2019s 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 Co-operation 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

Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency wrote on X that no increase in radiation levels had been reported at the site, but nonetheless voiced \u201cdeep concern\u201d at what he said was the fourth such strike in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

There were also more strikes on Tehran, where an AFP journalist saw a thick haze of grey smoke covering the skyline.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis war wasn\u2019t for freedom… we just ended up trapped with something even more savage,\u201d 31-year-old Faezeh told AFP via messenger app from Tehran.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey bomb randomly, there\u2019s no sign of any specific target these recent days.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Journalists from foreign media based in Tehran document damage from U.S.-Israeli strikes in a residential area of the town of Fardis, west of Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo\/Vahid Salemi) Journalists from foreign media based in Tehran document damage from U.S.-Israeli strikes in a residential area of the town of Fardis, west of Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo\/Vahid Salemi) <\/p>\n

Maryam, a 35-year-old from Khansar in Isfahan province said Iranians are divided between those hoping for an end to their government and those more fearful of economic disaster.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m honestly really scared about our future,\u201d she told AFP. \u201cThings are a disaster right now. Mass layoffs, widespread shutdowns… everything feels overwhelming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strikes by all sides have increasingly targeted economic and industrial sites, raising fears of wider disruption to global energy supplies.<\/p>\n

U.S.-Israeli strikes on Saturday hit a petrochemicals hub, a cement plant and a trade terminal on the Iran-Iraq border, where one person was reported killed.<\/p>\n

Iran has retaliated with missile and drone attacks on Israel and U.S. allies in the Gulf.<\/p>\n

Shrapnel from intercepted drones injured four people in Bahrain on Saturday, and two buildings in Dubai were hit by debris, including one housing the U.S. cloud computing firm Oracle, authorities said.<\/p>\n

\"\"APTOPIX Lebanon Israel Iran War A woman checks a destroyed house that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in Saksakiyeh village, south Lebanon, Friday, April 3, 2026. (AP Photo\/Hussein Malla) Beirut explosions<\/p>\n

On another front, the Israeli military said Friday it had struck more than 3,500 targets across Lebanon in the month since the latest round of fighting with Iran-backed Hezbollah began.<\/p>\n

As night fell Saturday, the Israelis warned that they would strike an area near a border crossing between Syria and Lebanon, ordering residents to evacuate.<\/p>\n

In Tel Aviv, hundreds of Israelis marched to protest against the war and demand peace talks.<\/p>\n

By AFP teams in Tehran, Jerusalem, Washington, Beirut, Dubai and Sanaa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maj.-Gen. (Ret’d) David Fraser speaks on the missing U.S. pilot after his fighter jet was shot down, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,43,77,44,11530,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-582574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-international","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-religion","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}