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.

A Bahamian-flagged liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier, the Al Daayen, appears to have attempted to transit the Strait of Hormuz earlier today eastbound before aborting and returning to the Persian Gulf.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump speaking about Tuesday’s ultimatum with Iran during this morning’s event celebrating Easter at the White House:

“We are obliterating their country. And I hate to do it, but we're obliterating it. They just don't want to say ‘uncle.’ They don't want to cry as the expression goes ‘uncle,’ but they will. And if they don't, They'll have no bridges. They'll have no power plants. They'll have no anything. I won't go further because there are other things that are worse than those two. And we might have, well, the thing, if I had my choice, what would I like to do? Take the oil because it's there for the taking. There's not a thing they can do about it. Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home. If it were up to me, I'd take the oil. I'd keep the oil. I would make plenty of money.“

The United States Armed Forces is making preparations for potential strikes on energy targets across Iran, as President Trump ratchets up his demand for Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz, with officials stating that an energy source could be considered a legitimate military target if it has been used for military purposes, such as providing fuel for mobile missile launchers, multiple U.S. officials tell the Wall Street Journal.