Trump says we're 'blowing up the whole country' if Iran doesn't make deal in 48 hours

Two C-130 aircraft were lost during the operation, an official said.

Last Updated: April 6, 2026, 1:24 AM EDT

President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes attack targeting military and government sites, officials said.

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Mar 30, 2026, 11:29 AM EDT

NATO intercepts Iranian missiles in Turkish airspace

A missile launched from Iran was intercepted by NATO air defenses after it entered Turkey's airspace, Turkey’s Ministry of National Defense said.

The ballistic missile was "neutralized by NATO air and missile defense assets deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean," the Turkish officials said in a statement.

This is the fourth time NATO has intercepted a projectile from Iran as it approached or entered Turkish airspace. Iran has previously denied launching projectiles at Turkey.

-ABC News’ Engin Bas

Mar 30, 2026, 10:49 AM EDT

US proposals 'excessive, unrealistic and illogical': Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson

Esmaeil Baqaei, the spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry, said Monday that Iran has “not had any negotiations with America,” even though President Donald Trump said this weekend that there have been talks both directly and indirectly.

Baqaei said "they have presented a request for negotiations along with a set of proposals, which has reached us through some intermediaries, including Pakistan.”

“Our position is very clear: we are currently in a situation where the military aggression and invasion by America continues with intensity, and we are certainly exerting all our efforts and capabilities to defend ourselves,” Baqaei said at a news conference.

"The information that has been conveyed to us [from the U.S.], regardless of what name you want to give it, as 15 articles or whatever you call it, involved a large number of requests that are excessive, unrealistic, and illogical,” he said.

-ABC News' Othon Leyva

Mar 30, 2026, 9:58 AM EDT

Bessent says US will 'retake control' of Strait of Hormuz either through US or multinational 'escort'

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on "Fox and Friends" that the U.S. will “retake control” of the Strait of Hormuz either through a U.S. or multinational escort.

A cargo ship in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from northern Ras al-Khaimah, near the border with Oman's Musandam governance, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in United Arab Emirates, March 11, 2026.
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Bessent, who was responding to a question about the impact of roughly 30 ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz Sunday and Monday, attempted to quell fears about the state of the global oil trade and the current supply.

“The market is in deficit about 10-to-12 million barrels a day. And we're making up for that deficit,” Bessent said, citing the release of 400 million barrels of oil from the International Energy Agency’s strategic reserve and the U.S. easing sanctions on Russian and Iranian oil already on the water.

“The market is well supplied, and we are seeing more and more ships go through on a daily basis as individual countries cut deals with the Iranian regime for the time being,” Bessent said. “But over time, the U.S. is going to retake control of the Straits and there will be freedom of navigation, whether it is through U.S. or a multinational escort.”

-ABC News’ Nicholas Kerr

Mar 30, 2026, 9:45 AM EDT

IDF hits university in Tehran

The Israel Defense Forces said it struck a university in Tehran, Imam Hossein University. The IDF said one of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' "central military infrastructure sites" is within the compound of the university, with the IDF calling the school "an emergency asset for the regime’s military bodies."

This comes after the IRGC warned that it now considers American universities in the region legitimate targets, saying if any more of its universities are hit, it will retaliate.

The American University in Beirut has moved all classes online as a precaution.

-ABC News’ Zoe Magee

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