‘Open the Fu*kin’ Strait, crazy bastards’ – Trump threatens Iran with strikes on power plants, bridges (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)

Israeli rescuers are searching for three people “believed to be trapped under the rubble” after an Iranian ballistic missile struck a building in the city of Haifa, according to Times of Israel military correspondent Emanuel Fabian.

Iran’s permanent mission to the UN has accused the organization of staying “silent in the face of the overt and shameless threat by the war-mongering President of the United States to target civilian infrastructure.” The statement referred to Trump’s post declaring Tuesday “Power Plant Day and Bridge Day” and warned that such rhetoric amounts to “incitement to terrorize civilians” and an intent to “commit war crimes.”

Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref has said US President Trump is “stuck in the Stone Age,” as evidenced by his willingness to sacrifice his “people’s welfare to threaten others.” Trump has repeatedly said the US military will bomb Iran into the “Stone Ages” unless Tehran accommodates his ultimatums.

“Trump last night spoke about his inability to provide ‘childcare and healthcare’ for the American people, citing war as an excuse, and today he threatened Iran with destroying ‘power plants and bridges’,” Aref wrote.

Iranian media has published a graphic photo, attributed to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), that it claims shows the remains of an American service member inside the wreckage of a destroyed aircraft. Reports also claim that the US government’s statements about a successful rescue of the downed warplane’s pilots in Iran are false.

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Ex-congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, once an outspoken supporter of US President Donald Trump, has sharply criticized his latest profanity-laden threat to Iran. Trump “has gone insane,” she wrote on X, urging “everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian… to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God.”

“Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians,” she added. Greene also accused Trump of launching an “unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades,” saying he has betrayed his 2024 campaign promises.

“This is not making America great again, this is evil,” she said, adding that the US was acting on Israel’s behalf, despite West Jerusalem being “more than capable of defending” itself and allegedly possessing undeclared nuclear weapons.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi called his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow has stated. Lavrov said that for de-escalation efforts in the Middle East to succeed, the US must “abandon the language of ultimatums.”

The two foreign ministers also called for an end to the “reckless and illegal attacks on civilian, industrial and energy infrastructure” in Iran, including the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, which has been targeted by US-Israeli strikes at least four times since late February.

Lavrov and Araghchi stressed that attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities risk triggering a “radioactive catastrophe for the entire region,” according to the statement.

A building has collapsed in the Israeli city of Haifa after an Iranian missile strike, Iranian media reports.

According to the Times of Israel, citing the country’s Magen David Adom emergency service, four people have been injured in the attack, including one seriously.

Times of Israel military correspondent Emanuel Fabian, citing Israel’s Fire and Rescue Service, reports that the “building in Haifa that sustained a direct impact of an Iranian ballistic missile is at risk of collapsing” after a “blaze erupted at the scene.”

Israeli rescuers believe that there may still be people trapped under the rubble, according to Fabian.

“It’s been a very bloody Easter Sunday here in Lebanon, with a number of massacres taking place across the country,” RT correspondent Steve Sweeney reports from Beirut. Israeli strikes hit the Dahieh area in the southern suburbs of the capital, sending thick smoke into the sky.

Jnah, a densely populated residential neighborhood, was also struck.

“The scenes that we’ve seen unfolding there look catastrophic – the emergency services are still working on the scene, along with volunteers – they are taking the dead and the wounded to the nearby Rafik Hariri Hospital,” Sweeney reports.

An eyewitness said the area is home to many migrant workers, including from India and African countries. Lebanese authorities put the death toll at four, while survivors claim it is “much higher” after a strike allegedly hit a civilian building.

Strikes also hit Kaffa Hata in the Sidon district, where displaced people had taken refuge. At least seven people were killed there, including a Lebanese army officer, according to Sweeney.

An Israeli drone production plant in Tel Aviv was destroyed after an Iranian missile carrying a “large warhead” hit the industrial site on Thursday, Ynet Global reports, citing Aero Sol CEO Israel Vaserlauf. The company supplies pilot helmets, bomb components, and drones to the IDF, according to the publication.

The US Central Command has published a short video clip, purportedly depicting the destruction of an Iranian drone in midair.