U.S. President Donald J. Trump in a post Easter Sunday directed at Iran via TruthSocial: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”

President Trump: “Praise be to Allah.”

Video footage from this morning’s rescue operation for the downed crewmember of an American F-15E Strike Eagle in Iran, appears to show a CASA C-295W Special Operation Aircraft with the U.S. Air Force’s 427th Special Operations Squadron, based out of Pope Army Airfield (Fort Bragg) in North Carolina, flying extremely low over mountainous terrain in Southern Iran.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived this morning in the Syrian capital of Damascus, meeting with President Ahmed al-Sharaa and other senior officials to discuss energy, security, and other development opportunities between the two counties, as well as Syria’s support for Ukraine during the ongoing invasion by Russia.

Reports of major damage to at least one residential building in the Northern Israeli city of Haifa, following the apparent direct impact of a medium-range ballistic missile launched by Iran.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump claimed in a several-minute-long phone interview this morning with Axios that the United States is “in deep and intense negotiations” with Iran and that a deal can be reached before his deadline expires on Tuesday. Trump stated, “The negotiations are going well, but you never get to the finish line with the Iranians,” adding that, “There is a good chance, but if they don't make a deal, I am blowing up everything over there.”

Asked about the recent bombing of the B1 Bridge between Karaj and Tehran in Northern Iran, President Trump said that the strike occurred when the two countries were close to an agreement on direct negotiations, stating, “But then they said they will meet us in five days. So I said, ‘Why five days?’ I felt they were not being serious. So I attacked the bridge.”

In a post again on TruthSocial, President Trump appears to clarify the time that his ultimatum towards Iran will expire before “Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day,” which will says will allegedly end on, “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!”

For the first time since the incident occurred late last week, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has published a statement confirming the shoot down of an American F-15E Strike Eagle during a combat mission over Iran. CENTCOM additionally confirms the successful recovery of both the Pilot and Weapons System Officer (WSO) in two separate search-and-rescue operations in Iran.

Iran has rejected a proposal to open the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a temporary ceasefire, while telling mediators from Turkey, Egypt and Pakistan that it is unwilling to meet American officials in Islamabad in the coming days and considers U.S. demands to end the war unacceptable, officials tell The Wall Street Journal.

Serbia’s top military and intelligence leaders have now stated that Ukraine was not behind an incident involving a large amount of explosives found near a gas pipeline on the border with Hungary, officials have told POLITICO. In direct contradiction to claims made yesterday by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is expected to badly lose his upcoming bid for reelection on April 12 and implied Sunday that Ukraine was responsible for the attempted attack against Hungary.

The Israel Defense Force has announced the elimination of Brig. Gen. Majid Khademi, the Head of Intelligence for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who was killed in an early morning precision strike on Tehran by the Israeli Air Force. Khademi’s death has since been confirmed by the Iranian state-run Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with the IRGC.

Overnight, the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces targeted and struck the Admiral Grigorovich, a Admiral Grigorovich-class guided-missile frigate with the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet, with a number of one-way attack drones while the ship was pierside at the Port of Novorossiysk. Damage to the ship is currently unclear, however, multiple fires were seen by residents burning along the water in Novorossiysk.

Fireballs erupt with several blazes already seen burning, as small arms and anti-aircraft tracers fill the sky last night over Southern Russia, during a large-scale drone attack by Ukraine against oil infrastructure at the Russian port city of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea.

The United States and Israel have a set of targets lined up in Iran designed to cripple the country’s economy and ensure the regime’s recovery from this war is “long and painful,” with Israel awaiting authorization from Washington this week to begin striking energy facilities across Iran, officials tell The New York Times.