Live Updates: Trump's threat to blow "everything up" if Iran won't make a deal hangs over new ceasefire bid

The Iran war will continue to disrupt global oil supplies even if a ceasefire in the region leads to a swift reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, according to a new analysis.  

Henning Gloystein, managing director of energy, industry and resources at geopolitical risk consultancy Eurasia Group, said it would take several months to repair oil refineries and other energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf that have been damaged in the conflict. 

Shipping companies that operate oil tankers in the region would also take at least two months to resume operations if the war is suspended, he added in a report on Monday.

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An Iranian drone strike on Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait overnight injured 15 Americans, two U.S. officials told CBS News.

Most have returned to duty, one of the sources said. 

As of Monday, 373 American service members have been injured in the Iran operation, according to a US Central Command spokesperson. Some 330 of those have returned to duty and five are currently considered seriously wounded.

Major stock indices ticked up slightly for the fourth day in a row Monday.

The S&P 500 rose 0.44%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average 0.36% and the tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite 0.54%. All three indices remain below pre-Iran war levels.

Meanwhile, oil futures rose slightly. The U.S. benchmark, West Texas Intermediate, was up 0.81% on Monday and the international Brent crude benchmark rose 0.3%. Prices are up substantially since the day before the U.S. launched strikes on Iran in late February.

In recent weeks, markets have frequently moved in reaction to clues about how close the U.S. might be to ending its war with Iran and whether oil exports will return to normal.

President Trump is pressing Iran to either reach a deal by Tuesday night or face massive strikes on its power plants. He told CBS News' Weijia Jiang in a press conference Monday that "we have to have a deal that's acceptable to me," including ensuring "free traffic of oil." 

Earlier Monday, Iran rejected the U.S.'s 15-point peace proposal and responded with its own set of terms. Mr. Trump told reporters Iran's offer was "not good enough" but a "significant step."

Mediators from Pakistan presented the U.S. and Iran with a 45-day ceasefire proposal, Reuters reported. A White House official called it "one of many ideas" being considered by the Trump administration, but the president "has not signed off on it."

The president was asked whether he is willing to end the war with Iran, charging tolls for ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, and floated the idea of the U.S. charging fees.

"We have a concept where we'll charge tolls," Mr. Trump said.

The president then indicated that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is a condition of any deal Iran must make before his 8 p.m. ET Tuesday deadline.

"We have to have a deal that's acceptable to me, and part of that deal is going to be we want free traffic of oil and everything else," he said.

In response to a question about whether the war is about to escalate or nearing an end, President Trump said it depends on how Iran responds to the deadline he set of 8 p.m. ET Tuesday.

"This is a critical period," he said. "They have till tomorrow. Now we'll see what happens. I can tell you they're negotiating, we think in good faith." 

He added, "We're getting the help of some incredible countries that want this to be ended because it affects them also."

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei expressed his condolences over the killing of the Revolutionary Guard's intelligence chief.

In a social media post attributed to Khamenei, the supreme leader said that Maj. Gen. Majid Khademi joined a "steadfast line of warriors and fighters" to sacrifice their lives.

Khademi was among more than 25 people killed in a wave of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran earlier Monday.

Since the war began, U.S.-Israeli strikes have killed dozens of top Iranian leaders, including Khamenei's father.

The younger Khamenei has not been seen or heard from in public since he succeeded his father as supreme leader.

Asked whether he would be willing to make a deal with Iran that does not include reopening the Strait of Hormuz, Mr. Trump said the strait is a "very big priority."

"We can bomb the hell out of them. We can knock them out for a loop. But to close the Strait, all you need is one terrorist that somehow has a truck loaded" with mines to plant in the water, he said.

The president called the rescue operation for the downed U.S. airmen "historic."

"We move heaven and earth to bring them home safely," he said. "We're going to bring our people home safely."

Mr. Trump also condemned a "leaker" who he said shared information with the media that the pilot of the F-15E had been rescued, but the second member of the crew had not yet been found.

"We have to find that leaker, because that's a sick person," he said.

Mr. Trump said since Operation Epic Fury began at the end of February, there have been 10,000 combat flights over Iran, striking more than 13,000 targets.

President Trump said that some officials in the military were wary of the rescue operation and concerned about going into Iran to extract the weapons systems officer.

When Mr. Trump asked Caine how many people were part of the operation, Caine said he would "love to keep that a secret."

Still, the president estimated there were "hundreds" who participated. 

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine provided a more detailed timeline of the mission to rescue the crew from the downed fighter jet, call sign Dude 44.

He said after it was relayed that the F-15E was "down in hostile territory" and its pilot and weapons systems officer had ejected safely, the rescue operation was launched and a U.S. Air Force search-and-rescue task force entered Iran in broad daylight to find and recover the pilot, call sign Dude 44A. 

"This was an incredibly dangerous mission, an incredibly dangerous undertaking, but a filled promise made to every American war fighter that you will not be left behind," Caine said.

He said drones and other aircraft engaged in a gun fight with Iranians during the rescue mission for the downed pilot, and an A-10, which was responsible for communicating with that pilot, was damaged by enemy fire. 

The A-10 pilot "continued to fight, continued the mission" and flew the aircraft into another country, Caine said. After determining that the plane could not be landed safely, the A-10 pilot ejected over friendly territory and was safely recovered.

"This was an incredibly brave and courageous mission, and a testament to the courage, skill and tenacity of the joint force and our leaders," he said.

Caine said the "backseater," call sign Dude 44B, evaded Iranians "using every means available," and the chairman said his "absolute commitment to surviving made much of our efforts possible."

On Saturday, the rescue operation to recover the weapons systems officer was launched with the mission to "do everything they can to bring an American home," Caine said.

Caine said that around 12 a.m. ET on Easter Sunday, more than 50 hours after the start of the operation, both crew from Dude 44 were declared returned to friendly territory.

"This operation serves as a clear reminder of the capability and will of America's joint force," he said. "The United States of America will recover our war fighters anywhere in the world under any conditions, when we want to."

Hamideh Soleimani, the niece of former Iranian Revolutionary Guard Major Gen. Qasem Soleimani, is being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Pearsall, Texas, CBS News confirmed on Monday.

Soleimani Afshar and her daughter were arrested on Friday night after their lawful U.S. permanent resident status was terminated by the U.S. State Department.

Officials said their green cards were terminated because Soleimani Afshar promoted Iranian regime propaganda, celebrated attacks against U.S. forces in the Middle East and denounced America as the "Great Satan," all while "enjoying a lavish lifestyle in Los Angeles."

A Department of Homeland Security official told CBS News that Soleimani Afshar was arrested in Los Angeles.

Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vowed Monday to avenge the death of the group's intelligence chief, Major General Majid Khademi, who was killed earlier in the day in an Israeli airstrike.

"The malicious and desperate enemy should know that a major retaliatory strike by the IRGC Intelligence Organization, under Operation 'Crushing Revenge,' awaits the planners and perpetrators of this crime," the IRGC said in a statement on its official Sepah News site.

Israel's defense minister lauded the assassination of Khademi in an intelligence-led airstrike as a major blow to the regime, calling him a "key figure" in Iran's war effort who had planned strikes against Israeli and U.S. targets.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth praised the actions of the U.S. military, saying that despite incoming fire from Iranians and "unforgiving conditions," there were no casualties in the mission to rescue the weapons systems officer.

He said that when the airman was able to activate his emergency transponder, his message was "God is good."

Hegseth said the first mission to rescue the pilot of the F-15E was "audacious" and was authorized swiftly and in the middle of the night.

"From the moment our pilots went down, our mission was unblinking," he said. "The call never dropped. The meeting never stopped. The planning never ceased."

Hegseth said strikes against Iran are continuing, with Monday bringing the largest volume of strikes since the start of the operation.

"And then Iran has a choice," he said. "Choose wisely, because this president does not play around."

CIA Director John Ratcliffe walked through the agency's role in the mission to rescue the downed weapons systems officer, calling it a "no-fail mission."

The CIA deployed human assets and technology to respond to a "daunting challenge compared to hunting for a single grain of sand in the middle of a desert," he said. 

Ratcliffe said the CIA launched a "deception campaign" designed to confuse Iranians who were searching for the airman and, on Saturday morning, found and confirmed that the weapons systems officer was alive and hidden in a mountain crevice.

The CIA director said the airman was "still invisible to the enemy, but not to the CIA."

Ratcliffe said that after the weapons systems officer was extracted Saturday night, intelligence indicated that the Iranians were "embarrassed and ultimately humiliated by the success of this audacious rescue mission."

The Pentagon planned at least four options for rescuing the weapons systems operator, with rotary-wing and fixed-wing aircraft scenarios, sources familiar with the rescue mission told CBS News. 

Hegseth chose a fixed-wing option, with two MC-130s, because the U.S. had intelligence that the Iranians thought they would be coming via helicopter.

The weather was also a factor. The low cloud ceiling made rotary-wing insertion difficult.

They debated between two landing zones and ended up choosing an agricultural landing strip that was 10 miles from the crew member's location.

The plan was to land the fixed-wing aircraft on the agricultural landing strip, secure the runway and offload the helicopters off the back of the MC-130s. They would assemble the helicopters on the runway. That would take about 15 minutes.

Once assembled, operators would board the Little Bird MH-6 helicopters, fly them on a 7-minute flight to the ridgeline in the cliff face where the weapons system officer was located, load him up and fly back another seven minutes.

They would land, disassemble the helicopters, load them back on the two MC-130s and then fly out of there.

The president said the armed forces deployed 21 military aircraft right after the F-15E fighter jet was shot down. During the first wave of search and rescue after the jet was downed, the pilot was located and extracted by an HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopter.

The weapons systems officer, meanwhile, landed a "significant distance away" from the pilot and climbed through mountain terrain to reach a higher altitude, Mr. Trump said.

The president said the airman scaled cliff faces, treated his own wounds and then transmitted his location to U.S. forces.

The operation to retrieve the weapons systems officer involved 155 aircraft, including four bombers, 64 fighters, 48 refueling tankers and 13 rescue aircraft, Mr. Trump said.

"The heroic F-15 weapons system officer had evaded capture on the ground in Iran for almost 48 hours," he said. "That's a long time when you're in tough shape and when you're bleeding."

In remarks to the press from the White House, the president called the mission to rescue the downed weapons system officer "one of the largest, most complex, most harrowing combat searches … ever attempted by the military."

He said the F-15E fighter jet was downed Thursday night "deep inside enemy territory" while participating in Operation Epic Fury, and both crew members ejected and landed on Iranian soil.

Mr. Trump said he made the decision to rescue the airmen because "in the United States military, we leave no American alive."

The fighter jet pilot who was shot down over Iran last week sustained serious injuries but is OK now, sources familiar with the rescue mission told CBS News.

The sources said there was a time shortly after the pilot ejected from the F-15E Strike Eagle when Trump officials were worried he would not make it. Early reports from the battlefield as he was being transported out were not good.

As for the weapons systems officer who was rescued on Sunday, President Trump's closest national security advisors received reports that he was a little banged up, dehydrated and running out of water. His injuries were less serious than the pilot's, sources.

During the two-day search for the stranded weapons systems operator, the U.S. picked up intelligence that Iran was hunting him using dogs, sources familiar with the rescue mission told CBS News.

The Iranians had the dogs sniff the eject seats of the downed F-15E fighter jet that were on the ground. This alarmed the Trump team, the sources said. But it turned out the dogs weren't very effective at tracking, they said.

The downed 5-15E Strike Eagle had been on a regular mission, in and out of Iran, when it was shot down, sources said. It was not on a covert mission or sent to extract uranium.

Iran will continue the war with the United States and Israel for "as long as the political authorities see fit," its army spokesman said.

"The enemy must definitely regret it because, after this war, we need to reach a point of security and not witness another war," Mohammad Akraminia told the ISNA news agency.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that he spoke the previous day with President Trump about "the heroic rescue operation of that US aircrew member, and President Trump, for his part, thanked me for the assistance Israel provided in this mission."

Netanyahu said Mr. Trump lauded Israel during the call as a steadfast, determined ally that fights shoulder-to-shoulder alongside the U.S., "and together, we are continuing to crush Iran's regime of terror."

Netanyahu said Israel had, in strikes Monday, "destroyed the largest petrochemical plant in Iran," part of efforts aimed at "systematically dismantling the IRGC's [Islamic Revolutionary Guards] money machine," as well as killing the IRGC's intelligence chief.

"Israel is stronger than ever, and the terrorist regime in Iran is weaker than ever," said Netanyahu in his video address. "And what is the key? What is the secret? Faith and power. We have both in abundance."

Asked Monday if striking civilian infrastructure in Iran, as he has threatened to do repeatedly, would be a war crime, Mr. Trump said the Iranian regime had killed more than 45,000 people in the last month.

"They're animals, and we have to stop them," he said.

The president said it would be a war crime to allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.

Mr. Trump said Iran is seeking a ceasefire because it is "getting obliterated," adding that he has given the Iranians opportunities to end the war, but "they haven't taken them."

"The only one that is going to set a ceasefire is me," he said. "I haven't set any ceasefire."

President Trump spoke briefly Monday about the two U.S. airmen who were rescued from Iran after their F-15E fighter jet was shot down late last week, calling them "incredible" and "brave" as he welcomed visitors to the White House for the Easter Egg Roll.

Speaking later to reporters, Mr. Trump said both airmen were injured but "they're doing well."

"They are both recovering very well," he said.

President Trump spoke to reporters about the ongoing war with Iran at the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, saying the U.S. is "obliterating their country."

Mr. Trump reiterated his threat to destroy Iran's power plants and bridges if it does not agree to a deal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

"They don't want to cry, as the expression goes, 'uncle.' But they will, and if they don't, they'll have no bridges. They'll have no power plants. They'll have no anything," Mr. Trump said. 

The president said the war was about "one thing," which he said was preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. But he also said he would like to seize Iran's oil.

"If I had my choice? What would I like to do? Take the oil, because it's there for the taking. There's not a thing they can do about it," he said. "Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home. If it were up to me, I'd take the oil. I'd keep the oil and would make plenty of money. And I'd also take care of the people of Iran."

Iran's state news agency said Monday that the Islamic Republic had, "after two weeks of comprehensive reviews at the highest levels," communicated its response to the 15-point peace proposal tabled by the Trump administration to end the war.

The response, according to Iran's IRNA news agency, was handed to Pakistani mediators and amounts to a flat rejection of the U.S. proposals, "based on past experiences" and emphasizing the "necessity of a permanent end to the war while respecting Iran's considerations."

Among the 10 demands Iran sent in response were a demand for an end to all regional conflicts, a new "safe passage protocol for the Strait of Hormuz," funding reconstruction of Iranian infrastructure damaged during the war, and the lifting of Western sanctions against Tehran.

The Iranian regime has yet to formally respond to a new proposal drafted by Pakistan, which was handed to Washington and Tehran on Sunday evening after indirect talks over the weekend. 

President Trump has not endorsed that proposal, but it is among many ideas he's considering, a White House official told CBS News on Monday. 

The U.S. scrambled a massive clandestine and fighting force to rescue a weapons systems operator who had to eject from an F-15E over southwest Iran last week, eventually sending more than 150 aircraft to find the Air Force colonel as the effort stretched from hours into days, sources familiar with the situation told CBS News. 

More than 200 munitions were used in the operation. About 20 aircraft were dispatched to pick up the two-person crew of the F-15E Strike Eagle, a plane whose call sign was Dude 44, after it was hit by a surface-to-air missile just before 10 p.m. Eastern on Thursday.

In the hours shortly after the F-15 went down, the operation also included 12 U.S. fighter jets, five rescue planes and four aircraft working to jam enemy communications and carry out intelligence and reconnaissance operations. Several teams in the region – including Navy SEALs, Air Force Special Operations, Army Special Operations Aviation, search and rescue, and combat medics, took part. 

The pilot, call sign Dude 44A, was rescued on Friday. By Saturday, the Pentagon had surged more than 150 aircraft to join the effort to rescue the weapons system officer, Dude 44B, including 64 fighter jets, four bombers, 48 refuelers, 13 rescue planes and 26 intelligence and jamming aircraft, sources told CBS News.

The president of the European Union's governing body, the European Council, called for a diplomatic resolution to the Iran war Monday and warned that "any targeting of civilian infrastructure, namely energy facilities, is illegal and unacceptable."

President Trump has threatened to destroy Iran's civilian power plants and its bridges if it doesn't agree to a deal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday night. 

"The Iranian civilian population is the main victim of the Iranian regime. It would also be the main victim of a widening of the military campaign," EC President Antonio Costa said in a social media post, adding a call from the European Union for Iran "to immediately put an end to its attacks against countries in the region and to allow for the reestablishment of full freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. Escalation will not achieve a ceasefire and peace. Only negotiations will, namely the ongoing efforts led by regional partners."

Pakistan has offered a 45-day ceasefire proposal which both the White House and Tehran are currently considering. 

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, in his own post on social media, condemned Costa's remark as "disgraceful" for not mentioning Israel's part in the joint war against his country, which Iran has retaliated for with its de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. 

"Forget international law, justice, and ethics, this is sheer absurdity. Europe's leadership has hit rock bottom," said Araghchi. "That's a shame."

A senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader warned Monday that if President Trump makes good on his threat to order strikes on the country's civilian power plants, Tehran would retaliate by targeting energy infrastructure in U.S.-allied Persian Gulf states.

"The foolish President of the #United_States has threatened to strike Iran's electrical infrastructure! The rulers of #Arab_countries should, in order to prevent the region from going dark, make Trump understand that the #Persian_Gulf is not a place for gambling," said Aliakbar Velayati in his social media post.

Velayati is a former Iranian foreign minister and current senior advisor to the nation's supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen or heard from directly since sustaining unspecified injuries in the same airstrike that killed his father, who was also his predecessor, on Feb. 28.

The Iranian-backed Iraqi militia group known collectively as the Popular Mobilization Forces said its members were targeted Monday by multiple U.S. strikes, including one aimed at an intelligence headquarters and several that targeted a base near the Haliwa Airport in the southern part of Iraq.

The PMF said there were no human casualties from the strikes.

A pro-PMF media outlet later said members of the Iranian-backed umbrella group had launched a drone attack on the U.S. Consulate in Erbil, the capital of northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region. There were no immediate reports of any impacts at the consulate, which has been targeted repeatedly during the Iran war.

A U.S. State Department spokesperson told CBS News' Margaret Brennan on Monday that Iranian-backed militias in Iraq had "conducted two more egregious attacks against U.S. diplomatic facilities in Iraq overnight in an attempt to kill American diplomats, adding to hundreds in recent weeks in and from Iraqi territory against U.S. citizens, Iraq's neighbors, and Iraqi state institutions and civilians, including in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region."

The spokesperson said the U.S. had "consistently urged the Iraqi government to immediately live up to its responsibility to stop attacks on U.S. facilities and to prevent terrorist militias from using Iraqi territory to launch attacks," adding that U.S. forces would "not hesitate to defend our personnel and facilities should the Iraqi government be unable to fulfill its obligations." 

The State Department has offered a monetary reward for any information regarding planned or previous attacks against U.S. diplomatic facilities worldwide.

The operator of Iran's largest petrochemical complex said the situation was "under control" after Israel on Monday bombed the facility, with the extent of the damage being assessed.

"A fire has been brought under control. The situation is currently under control, and technical aspects, as well as the extent of the damage, are under investigation," state news agency IRNA cited the National Petrochemical Company as saying, adding that no injuries had been reported.

Israel claimed responsibility for the strikes on the South Pars petrochemical complex in Asaluyeh, a key site for Iran's energy sector, both for production of petroleum by-products and for joint work with Qatar on the world's largest natural gas field.

Israel Defense Forces international spokesperson Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani acknowledged on Monday a "hard incident" in the northern city of Haifa, confirming that four Israeli civilians were killed when a residential building was hit by an Iranian ballistic missile the previous day. 

Two of the victims were found amid the rubble after the strike on Sunday, while the two others were found Monday morning.

Shoshani said rescuers spent 18 hours using special equipment in "a highly complex rescue" operation complicated by the fact that, while part of the Iranian missile hit the building, there was no sign of an explosion, so crews had to be careful due to the possibility of an "active explosive device still in their arena."

"The Iranian regime with their attack killed 21 Israeli civilians. While the IDF and our American counterparts take every possible step to mitigate harm to civilians, Our enemies, Iranian regime, targets civilians purposely daily both in how they target and with the munitions they use," Shoshani said.

Iranian officials say some 2,000 people have been killed by the U.S. and Israeli strikes, which they say have hit at least one elementary school, and a university on Monday.

The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defense said Monday that it had "dealt with" 14 more Iranian missiles and 19 drones over the past 24 hours.

"These attacks have caused injuries to 4 people, ranging from minor to moderate and severe," the ministry's statement said, adding that since the U.S. and Israel launched their joint war on Iran, Tehran's retaliatory fire had wounded a total of 221 people of multiple nationalities and killed 13, including two Emirati military service members, a Moroccan civilian contractor and 10 civilians from Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, the Palestinian Territories, India and Egypt.

It said the UAE's air defenses had intercepted a total of 519 ballistic missiles, 26 cruise missiles, and 2,210 drones launched by Iran.

Jordan's military said Monday that Iran had targeted the kingdom with missiles and drones over the last 24 hours, including one of each that were "not intercepted and fell within Jordanian territory."

"Two people were injured, both with moderate injuries; one was taken to a hospital for treatment, while the other received first aid on site," the military said in its statement, adding that some, unspecified "material damage was also reported."

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said Monday that he had met personally with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to offer his thanks for Israel's "unprecedented assistance" with the operation over the weekend to rescue an American fighter jet crew member after Iran shot down an F-15 on Friday.

Huckabee said in a post on social media that he had met Netanyahu on behalf of the American people to thank him for his country's "unprecedented assistance" to the U.S. military and intelligence agencies "who conducted a historic rescue mission of our air crew in Iran."

Huckabee credited U.S. special forces for carrying out a "brilliant" operation, and said the Israel Defense Forces and Mossad intelligence agency "were helpful partners in the mission."

The International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency, warned Monday of the potential for a "severe radiological accident with harmful consequences for people and the environment in Iran and beyond" after U.S.-Israeli strikes near an Iranian nuclear facility.

"Based on its independent analysis of new satellite imagery and detailed knowledge of the site, the IAEA can confirm recent impacts of military strikes close to Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), including one just 75 metres (yards) from the site perimeter," the agency said in a statement shared on social media, adding that the facility itself had not yet been damaged as of Sunday.

"Once again, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi warns that continued military activity near the BNPP — an operating plant with large amounts of nuclear fuel — could cause a severe radiological accident with harmful consequences for people and the environment in Iran and beyond," the agency said.

It added a call from Grossi for all attacks near nuclear plants to stop, as they "pose a very real danger to nuclear safety."

"The IDF is currently striking with full force Iran's largest petrochemical facility, located in Eslamiyeh, a key target responsible for about 50% of the country's petrochemical production," Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz said Monday, touting it as "a severe economic blow, amounting to tens of billions of dollars for the Iranian regime."

Katz said in his video statement that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had instructed the Israeli military "to continue striking the Iranian regime's national infrastructure with full force."

Iranian state media reported explosions from attacks on several major petrochemical facilities across the country, including the South Pars facility in Asaluyeh, where smoke was reported rising after blasts explosions.

A White House official told CBS News on Monday that a ceasefire proposal from Pakistan was "one of many ideas" being considered by the Trump administration, but that Mr. Trump "has not signed off on it."

"Operation Epic Fury continues," the official said, noting that Mr. Trump is due to speak at 1 p.m. on the war.

Iranian officials have not given any public indication of how they view the Pakistani proposal.

The spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry said Monday that President Trump's repeated threats to attack the country's civilian infrastructure amounted to war crimes, as he acknowledged ongoing diplomatic efforts to end the war but warned that "negotiation can in no way be compatible with ultimatums, crimes, or threats to commit war crimes.

As reports said Pakistan had handed Tehran and Washington a proposal for a 45-day ceasefire, foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei said it was "not unusual for intermediaries to convey the positions of the parties … and naturally, this process continues."

"However, negotiation can in no way be compatible with ultimatums, crimes, or threats to commit war crimes," Baqaei added in remarks conveyed by Iranian state media.  

"Regarding threats against us, there is no doubt: issuing such threats constitutes war crimes, encourages war crimes, and normalizes war crimes. Repeatedly threatening a country with the destruction of energy and industrial infrastructure, while signaling to the Israeli regime to attack civilian targets either alone or with your cooperation, constitutes a war crime under both international humanitarian law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court," Baqaei said.

Others have warned that attacking civilian infrastructure would constitute a war crime. 

"Electrical generating plants power hospitals, they power schools, water sanitation facilities, the things that you need to sustain basic day-to-day living for a civilian population," Tess Bridgeman, who was a legal adviser to President Obama's National Security Council, told CBS News national security correspondent David Martin over the weekend. "Obliterating all power plants, threatening coercive actions against the civilian population to try to bring a government to the negotiating table, those kinds of things are flatly illegal."

Elliott Abrams, who served as special representative for Iran in the first Trump administration, told Martin punishing the Iranian population would undercut the U.S. cause. "We want the Iranian people on our side," he said. "I'd rather see us go after regime targets, assets they use to repress the Iranian people, not assets Iranians use to live their daily lives."

President Trump is scheduled to hold a news conference at the White House later Monday about the successful mission over the weekend to rescue the second member of a U.S. F-15E fighter jet crew from inside Iran, among other topics. 

Mr. Trump said in a Truth Social post over the weekend that members of the military would join him to speak with the media at 1 p.m. Eastern on Monday afternoon. 

The F-15's pilot was rescued Friday after the jet was shot down over a remote area of Iran, but the second crew member wasn't rescued by U.S. forces until early Sunday morning local time. 

"We have rescued the seriously wounded, and really brave, F-15 Crew Member/Officer, from deep inside the mountains of Iran," Mr. Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday, calling him "a highly respected Colonel." 

The naval command of Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps vowed Monday that shipping in "the Strait of Hormuz will never return to its former state, especially for America and Israel."

"The Navy of the IRGC is in the process of completing the operational preparations for the Announced Plan of Iran's officials for the new order in the Persian Gulf," the command said in a statement posted on social media.

It appeared to be a reference to a plan approved by Iran's parliament last week to charge a fee for all commercial vessels to transit the strait, a vital shipping lane on which Iran has enforced a de facto blockade in retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli strikes now in their fifth week. 

Iran has allowed some ships to traverse the strait in recent days, but none belonging to the U.S. or Israel, and it is believed to be using its Larak Island as a "toll booth" to collect fees that other countries say amount to extortion.

Pakistan has presented the U.S. and Iran with a last-ditch proposal to immediately halt fighting and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a source aware of the ongoing indirect negotiations told the Reuters news agency on Monday. Axios first reported on Sunday a bid for a potential 45-day ceasefire, intended to be the first part of a two-phase deal aimed at launching broader, direct negotiations to permanently end the war.

Pakistan drafted the framework to end the hostilities and presented it to Tehran and the Trump administration overnight, the source told Reuters.

"All elements need to be agreed today," the source told the news agency.

The source told Reuters that Pakistan's army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, was in contact "all night long" with Vice President JD Vance, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

Reuters said the proposal by Islamabad calls for a ceasefire to take effect immediately so the Strait of Hormuz could reopen. There would then be 15–20 days for the two sides to finalize a broader settlement to end the war.  

Neither the Trump administration nor Tehran offered any immediate response to the proposal. 

Iranian officials have said previously that any ceasefire must come with guarantees that the country will not be attacked again by the U.S. or Israel, but Iranian officials have also indicated that they want the status quo in the Strait of Hormuz to change, with Tehran keeping a permanent level of control over the vital shipping lane. Some have even suggested Iran must be paid reparations for the damage done during the war, reparations that could come in the form of "tolls" charged by Iran to let ships through the strait. 

Reuters said a final agreement under the proposal would be expected to include Iranian commitments not to pursue nuclear weapons in exchange for the U.S. and other countries lifting sanctions and ⁠releasing billions of dollars of frozen Iranian assets.

Israel and the United States carried out a wave of attacks on Iran on Monday, killing more than 25 people, and Iran responded with missile fire on Israel and its Gulf Arab neighbors. 

Explosions rang out in Tehran and low-flying jets could be heard for hours as the capital was pounded. Thick black smoke rose near the city's Azadi Square after one airstrike hit the grounds of the Sharif University of Technology.

Among those killed in one of the attacks was the head of intelligence for Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Maj. Gen. Majid Khademi, Iranian state media and the Israeli military said.

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces said Khademi, whose predecessor was killed in previous strikes last summer, was killed in an intelligence-based airstrike in Tehran. 

The IDF said Khademi was "responsible for gathering intelligence and helping formulate a comprehensive situational assessment for the regime's senior leadership" during the current war, calling him a "key figure in the campaign."

"Additionally, Khademi worked to advance terrorist activities against the State of Israel and against Jewish targets worldwide. He also took part in attempts to target American individuals and was responsible for monitoring Iranian civilians as part of the regime's suppression of internal protests," the IDF said.

Iranian missiles hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa, meanwhile, where four people were found dead in the rubble of a residential building, the Israeli military said.

Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia all activated their air defense systems to intercept incoming Iranian missiles and drones, as Tehran kept up the pressure on its Gulf neighbors. Iran's regular attacks on regional energy infrastructure and its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil is shipped in peacetime, has sent global energy prices soaring.

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Iran's central military command warned on Monday of "much more devastating" retaliation if its adversaries hit civilian targets. 

"If attacks on civilian targets are repeated, the next stages of our offensive and retaliatory operations will be much more devastating and widespread," a spokesman for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said in a statement posted by state broadcaster IRIB on Telegram.

The president told Fox News in a phone interview that he thinks he can get a deal with Iran by Monday, acknowledging last ditch diplomatic efforts. 

Trey Yingst, Fox News' chief foreign correspondent, said the president told him if Iran doesn't make a deal quickly, he's "considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil."

The interview came after Mr. Trump, in an Easter Sunday post on Truth Social, warned that without a deal, Tuesday would be "Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran," as he threatened to hit the country's electrical plants and other civilian infrastructure.

"There will be nothing like it!!!" the president wrote on Truth Social. "Open the F*****' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH!"

He later posted on Truth Social: "Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time," indicating his apparent deadline for Iran to make a deal.

He told The Wall Street Journal "if they don't do something by Tuesday evening, they won't have any power plants and they won't have any bridges standing."