President Trump renewed threats against Iran, saying his 10-day deadline had narrowed and giving Tehran 48 hours before, he warned, ‘all hell will rain down on them.’ Iran rejected the ultimatum as regional tensions remained high.
The U.S. military is conducting urgent operations to find an American airman reported missing after Iranian forces shot down two U.S. warplanes. Iranian state television aired footage it said showed armed men searching for the missing flyer. Iranian security sources also reported that U.S. special forces had operated inside Iran overnight.
Reporters in Tel Aviv said Iran was publicly celebrating the shootdowns even as it continued to face strikes from Israeli and American aircraft. One of the downed jets was an F-15 fighter; its pilot was rescued by helicopter, while the missing service member was the jet’s weapons systems officer. A second U.S. warplane, an A-10 ‘Warthog,’ was also brought down; that aircraft’s pilot ejected and was recovered.
Israel has not publicly confirmed the details about the two U.S. aircraft but said it would suspend attacks in areas where search efforts are underway. In Tehran, state media reported strikes near a functioning nuclear reactor and raised the death toll from an earlier strike on a major bridge to 13.
State outlets also said missiles were headed toward Israel, and one missile reportedly penetrated Israeli air defenses and destroyed several homes near Tel Aviv. Separately, a drone attack ignited a foreign-owned oil facility in Iraq.
In Tel Aviv, correspondents described the recovery effort as a race against Iranian forces, who spoke on television of finding the missing airman first. The situation remains fluid as U.S. and allied forces carry out operations to locate and recover the service member while diplomatic and military tensions escalate across the region.