Iran war updates: Ceasefire response ‘not good enough’, says Trump

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Here are some of the day’s top developments:

• Trump said he plans to destroy all of Iran’s bridges and power plants by midnight on Wednesday (04:00 GMT) after he described a “significant proposal” received from Iran as “not good enough”.
• Iran’s military command ‌said the US president was “delusional” and called his warnings “rude, arrogant rhetoric and baseless threats”.
• Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the US operation to rescue a downed airman, involving 155 US aircraft, may have been a cover to “steal enriched uranium”.
• Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has pledged to carry out a “major retaliatory strike” after its intelligence chief, Major-General Majid Khademi, was killed in what Iran said was a US-Israeli attack.
• US-Israeli attacks across Iran killed at least 34 people, including at least six children.
• An Iranian missile hit a residential building in Haifa, Israel, killing at least four people, medics said.

We’re getting reports of explosions being heard in Iran’s capital, Tehran.

We’ll bring you more as soon as information emerges.

Alireza Rahimi, Iran’s deputy minister of youth and sports, has called on Iranians, including youth, artists and athletes, to form human chains at power plants across the country at 2pm (10:30 GMT) tomorrow to denounce the US bombing threats against the facilities.

“We will stand hand in hand to say: Attacking public infrastructure is a war crime,” he said in a social media post.

Rahimi’s statement follows Trump’s threats to attack Iranian civilian infrastructure, including bridges and power plants, if the Strait of Hormuz is not fully reopened.

The US president lashed out during a news briefing, demanding the journalist who reported on the rescue of the US airman in Iran reveal their source, and threatening jail time if they did not cooperate.

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The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the war will lead to higher inflation and slower global growth, even if it stops immediately.

The global lender is set to reduce its forecast for global economic growth and bump up its outlook for inflation, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told Reuters.

Without the war, Georgieva said the IMF had expected a small upgrade in its projection for global growth.

“Instead, all roads now lead to higher prices and slower growth,” she told the news agency. “Even if the war is to stop today, there would be a lingering negative impact to the rest of the world.”

The war’s economic implications are set to dominate next week’s IMF Spring Meetings.

Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement condemning Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s storming of the Muslim holy site in occupied East Jerusalem “under the protection of the occupation police”.

The Gulf state slammed the far-right Israeli minister’s latest such action as a “flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and a provocation of the feelings of Muslims worldwide”.

#Statement | Qatar Condemns Israeli National Security Minister's Storming of Al Aqsa Mosque

Doha | April 6, 2026

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— Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Qatar (@MofaQatar_EN) April 6, 2026

US news outlet CBS is reporting that “15 Americans” were injured in an Iranian drone strike on the Ali Al Salem airbase in Kuwait overnight, citing two US officials.

It said most of them had already returned to duty.

In the past, Iran’s proposal had five points, but now, there are 10 points in response to the US proposal, made up of 15 points.

They are talking about the lifting of sanctions. They are talking about a kind of compromise about the enrichment of uranium. They said they had talked about that even before the beginning of this war, so it’s not done under pressure of the war.

But also among those points is a protocol for the safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. And linked to that is an Iranian demand that Iran can extract fees to help it rebuild and to help it compensate for losses in this war, for the destruction that happened across the country.

They want a permanent end to this war, not a ceasefire, and they want it on all fronts across the region. That implies Hezbollah, the Houthis and other allies in the region.

There is no compromise regarding these points. So far, they’re not willing to engage in serious negotiations if there is no preliminary acceptance, at least in principle, that some of these demands, or most of them, are going to be met.

Bahrain’s Interior Ministry says sirens have been activated, and calls on people to remain calm and “head to the nearest safe place”.

The spokesperson for Iran’s top joint military command has called Trump’s threats “delusional”.

In a statement carried by state media, the spokesperson for Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters also said the threats will not make up for the “disgrace and humiliation” of the US in the region.

We know that, according to some reporting, the war with Iran has cost the Israeli government around $15bn in the past month.

Around 26,000 Israelis, or a little more, have filed for compensation for significant damage. Damage that is regarded as minor has a different, streamlined process that doesn’t even get counted.

We also know that several buildings have been condemned for demolition because of the damage from Iranian missiles. At least one factory that manufactured drones has been decommissioned by a strike on a site in Petah Tikva.

All of that just gives you indications, because there is a lot of control in Israel about what gets seen and what gets known about this war.