Middle East crisis live: Iran rejects Trump’s 48 hour deadline to ‘make a deal’; US races to find missing pilot


Iran launches missiles and drones at Israel and Kuwait after US president says regime will face ‘all hell’

Search for missing US crew member of downed fighter jet enters second day

A former director of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has urged Gulf nations to prevent Donald Trump from turning the region into “a ball of fire”, after the US president’s latest threat to Tehran.

Mohamed El-Baradei, who led the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 1997 to 2009, also tagged UN and European Union accounts, as well as French president Emmanuel Macron, in his posts online.

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/05/middle-east-crisis-live-iran-israel-us-war-trump-strait-hormuz-missing-pilot-downed

Author : Wendy Frew

Publish date : 2026-04-05 03:39:00

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