President Trump issued new threats to Iran, saying his 10-day deadline had narrowed and that Iran had 48 hours before, he warned, “all hell will rain down on them.” Iran rejected the ultimatum as tensions in the region remained high.
The U.S. military is urgently trying to locate an American airman missing after Iranian forces shot down two U.S. warplanes. Iranian state television broadcast footage it said showed armed men searching for the missing flyer, and Iranian security sources reported that U.S. special forces had been operating inside Iran overnight. Elizabeth Palmer, reporting from Tel Aviv, said Iran was publicly congratulating itself for the shootdowns even as it continued to take strikes from Israeli and American aircraft.
One of the downed jets was an F‑15 fighter. Its pilot was rescued by helicopter. The missing airman was a weapons systems officer aboard that aircraft. A second U.S. warplane, an A‑10 “Warthog,” was also downed; its pilot ejected and was recovered. Israel has not publicly confirmed details about the two U.S. aircraft but said it would suspend attacks in areas being searched.
Iran reported strikes near a functioning nuclear reactor and raised the death toll to 13 from an earlier strike on a major bridge in Tehran. State media also said missiles were headed toward Israel, and a missile penetrated Israeli air defenses, destroying several homes near Tel Aviv.
Elsewhere, a drone attack ignited a foreign-owned oil facility in Iraq. In Tel Aviv, Palmer said the search for the missing American airman was a race against Iranian forces who spoke on television of finding him first. The situation remained fluid, with U.S. and allied forces conducting operations to locate and recover the missing service member while diplomatic and military tensions escalated across the region.