🇺🇸🇮🇷 Investors made a roughly $950 million wager on falling oil prices just hours before the U.S.–Iran ceasefire was announced, selling large amounts of Brent and U.S. crude futures ahead of the news, Reuters reports.
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran’s 10-point ceasefire proposal included the phrase “acceptance of enrichment” in its Farsi version, but that wording was omitted from the English versions shared by Iranian diplomats to journalists, and it’s unclear why the discrepancy exists, AP reports.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Alex Jones:
WAR CRIME ALERT!!
The definition of genocide is destroying an entire civilization/people! Trump literally sounds like an unhinged super villain from a Marvel comic movie.
This IS NOT WHAT WE VOTED FOR!!!
🇺🇸 Incredible photos of the Moon from the Artemis II mission.
N.B.📝Notably, in late February, Kim signaled an openness to renewed engagement with Washington, saying there was “no reason” the country could not maintain a workable relationship with the United States.
Its public messaging has also been notably restrained, avoiding direct criticism of President Trump.
The NIS says all of this reflects a broader strategy by Kim Jong-un to create new diplomatic space.
Seoul’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) noted that Pyongyang has not provided military aid to Iran, issued no condolences after the death of Ali Khamenei, and did not acknowledge his successor, Mojtaba Khamenei.
🇰🇵🇰🇷🇺🇸🇮🇷 North Korea is quietly distancing itself from Iran during the war in what South Korean intelligence describes as an effort to keep the door open to improved ties with the U.S.
🇾🇪🇺🇸🇸🇦🇮🇷 Senior Houthi leader Mohammed Ali Al Houthi told CNN that the group does not plan to target Saudi Red Sea ports as long as Saudi Arabia continues de-escalation and does not join the U.S. and Israel in escalating the Iran war.
"There is no intention to target any Muslim country except in response to aggression against Yemen.
The objective is to prevent the Red Sea from being used militarily against any Muslim country."
🇾🇪🇺🇸🇮🇷 The Houthis (Ansarallah) will uphold the ceasefire with the U.S. as long as Washington “adheres to its commitment to halt its aggression” against them, senior Houthi leader Mohammed Ali Al Houthi told CNN.
Companies in the King Abdullah Financial District were told to evacuate on April 2 and not return employees until at least April 6.
🇸🇦🇮🇷 Saudi Arabia instructed businesses to keep staff out of Riyadh’s main financial district due to concerns over potential Iranian missile or drone attacks, according to Semafor.
The craters, each about 9 meters wide, appear arranged in a line to block road access and are located roughly 20 km from a remote airstrip where U.S. forces destroyed damaged aircraft.
The strikes were likely intended to prevent Iranian forces from reaching the area during the rescue operation.
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Satellite imagery shows around 28 craters blasted into roads in Iran’s Isfahan province near the area where the downed U.S. F-15E crewmember was rescued, CNN reports.
After identifying his position, hidden in a mountainous area, the CIA shared the information with the Pentagon and the White House, prompting President Trump to order an immediate rescue mission, which CENTCOM carried out with real-time CIA support.
The CIA spread false information that the service member had already been found and was being moved, creating confusion and uncertainty among Iranian forces while using its intelligence capabilities to locate him with "unique, exquisite capabilities."
🇺🇸🇮🇷 NEW: The CIA carried out a deception operation inside Iran before the Pentagon launched its rescue mission for the missing U.S. F-15E crewmember, according to Fox News.
He’s threatening possible war crimes and alienating allies.
This is who he is, but this is not who we are. Our country deserves so much better.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Trump's Truth post:
Happy Easter, America. As you head off to church and celebrate with friends and family, the President of the United States is ranting like an unhinged madman on social media.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump via Truth Social:
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.
who also happens to be a highly respected Colonel, and who I am thrilled to let you know is now SAFE and SOUND!... GOD BLESS AMERICA, GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS, AND HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!
🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. President Donald Trump on rescued Air Force officer:
WE GOT HIM! My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History, for one of our incredible Crew Member Officers,
Ground fighting was reported, with Iranian IRGC and Basij forces reportedly taking casualties, though no Americans were killed.
The F-15E was largely destroyed on impact.
A large, multi-layered combat search and rescue mission followed, involving pararescue units and multiple branches of the U.S. military, with heavy air support used to keep Iranian forces at bay.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 NEW: The F-15E weapons systems officer ejected with the pilot after the jet was hit over southwest Iran and used SERE training to evade capture, hiding on an elevated ridge and putting out an emergency beacon, according to Fox News.
U.S. Air Force jets struck Iranian forces to keep them away from the area, while President Trump and senior officials monitored the mission from the White House Situation Room.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. special forces rescued the second crew member of the downed F-15E in southwestern Iran, with the operation carried out by a specialized commando unit under heavy air cover, according to Axios.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING: The second U.S. F-15E crew member has been rescued and is safe after a "complex rescue operation" that began Friday morning, according to Fox News, citing two senior U.S. officials.
— Third report: U.S. rescue team "still needs to exfiltrate" airman from Iran.
All reports are based on a "U.S. government source."