Trump Threatens Intensified Strikes on Iran as Tanker Passages Begin

Trump threatened ferocious, unyielding resolve to destroy Iranian infrastructure.

“Marco Rubio says President Trump prefers diplomatic solution to war on Iran United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told Al Jazeera that the Strait of Hormuz will “reopen one way or another” in the wake of the eventual end of the US-Israeli war with Iran”

Al Jazeera

He posted that the U.S. would attack all of Iran's Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells, and Kharg Island.

Al Jazeera

Trump told the Financial Times he was considering sending U.S. forces to seize Kharg Island.

Iranian officials denied any direct talks were underway and dismissed a 15-point ceasefire proposal as excessive and unreasonable.

US-Israeli forces killed at least 201 Iranians according to the Iranian Red Crescent.

The single deadliest strike hit a girls' school in Minab, killing at least 153 children and staff.

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Amnesty International warned the strikes could amount to war crimes.

The UN Security Council held a rare emergency session at Pakistan's behest.

Iran retaliated after US-Israeli forces assassinated Supreme Leader Khamenei.

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Iran's defense ministry threatened no mercy or forgiveness and declared the Strait of Hormuz closed.

Iranian missile strikes killed multiple Israeli Defense Forces personnel and hit other sites including a mosque in Casablanca.

The Houthis launched a missile at Israel for the first time in the conflict.

The 31-day war displaced more than 3 million Iranians.

Amnesty International urged the U.S. and Israel to stop targeting civilian infrastructure.

KUOW

The war's death toll surpassed 2,500 Iranians, 1,300 in Lebanon, 1,000 Israelis, and 158 Americans.

Iran demined routes to evacuate 30,000 pilgrims trapped at Karbala's Imam Hussein shrine.