Donald Trump has said Iran has 48 hours to open the Strait of Hormuz before “all Hell will reign down on them”.

Writing on Truth Social, he said: “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT. Time is running out – 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

Iran said the area around the Bushehr nuclear power plant has been attacked today for the fourth time during the current war.

Iran’s International Atomic Energy Agency said one of ‌the site’s physical protection staff members was killed ‌by a projectile ‌fragment and that a building on site ⁠was affected by shockwaves and fragments.

Russia’s state ​nuclear company Rosatom evacuated a further 198 of its staff from Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power ⁠plant on Saturday, Russian news agencies reported.

Rosatom has been evacuating staff from the plant since the Iran ⁠war broke ​out at ⁠the end of February.

Saturday’s evacuations had been planned ⁠before the International Atomic Energy ​Agency ⁠said in a ‌post on X on Saturday that one of the plant’s physical ‌protection staff was killed by ‌a projectile fragment and that a building on site was affected ⁠by shockwaves and fragments.

Russian news agencies cited Rosatom chief Alexei Likhachev as saying that developments near the plant were unfolding in line with the worst-case scenario.

Likhachev said ‌that the killed staff ​member was an Iranian national.

Rosatom ‌said it ⁠had informed Russian President Vladimir Putin ⁠on the situation surrounding the plant, ‌the ​TASS news agency cited ‌Likhachev as saying.

Iran used a new ⁠air defence system on Friday to ⁠target ​a ⁠US fighter ⁠jet, Iran’s ​Khatam ⁠al-Anbiya joint ‌military command said on ‌Saturday.

A spokesperson ‌for the ⁠joint military command said the country would “definitely achieve full control” ‌over its airspace, ​according ‌to ⁠Iranian ⁠state media.

In a brief Friday phone interview with The Independent, the president declined to say what his course of action might be if Iranian forces get to the downed airman — the first American aviator to be shot down over enemy territory since an A-10 “Warthog” pilot ejected into Iraq after being struck by a surface-to-air missile in April 2003, just weeks into Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Asked what he’d do if the pilot is captured or harmed by Iranians, Trump replied: “Well, I can’t comment on it because — we hope that’s not going to happen,” and ended the call shortly thereafter.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has long exerted a strong, often underestimated power in the Middle East. With around 190,000 members, plus an estimated 450,000 reserves in the Basij paramilitary, the largest component of Iran’s Armed Forces also controls much of the country’s politics, intelligence and economy.

After an Israeli airstrike assassinated the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28, US President Donald Trump called on the IRGC to lay down its arms in exchange for immunity. IRGC forces refused the offer, and with many more of its leaders killed over the last month, it shows no sign of giving up.

As US ground forces deploy to the Middle East, it is imperative to understand that – despite a month of widespread US-Israeli bombing, damaged infrastructure, internal fractures and decimated leadership – the IRGC will likely resist any invasion of Iranian territory with tenacity. Its history demonstrates why.

Iran has claimed it attacked an Israel-affiliated vessel ⁠with a drone ⁠in ​the ⁠Strait of ⁠Hormuz.

Iran’s state ‌media said the attack set the ship on fire.

There was ‌no ​immediate ‌comment ⁠from ⁠Israel.

Iranian forces are hunting for a missing US pilot from one of two warplanes downed over Iran and the Gulf, raising the stakes for Washington.

The jet was shot down by Iranian forces around 6:45 a.m. ET Friday and a rescue mission was quickly launched. One of the pilots, who had ejected before the aircraft went down, was rescued by US forces, two US officials told CBS News. The pilot is alive and receiving medical attention, officials said.

US forces are racing to recover the second pilot, a weapons system officer, before Iranian forces can reach them. Israel is helping the United States with the search and rescue operation.

Two drones hit ⁠the BP-operated North Rumaila oilfield in southern Iraq on Saturday, wounding three Iraqi workers, security ⁠and ​energy sources said.

The ⁠attack took place shortly after another ⁠drone hit storage facilities west ​of ⁠the port ‌city of Basra that belong to foreign oil companies, ‌the sources said.

The ‌drone strikes had no impact on operations in this ⁠part of Iraq’s giant Rumaila oilfield, as they targeted an equipment storage facility, said two Iraqi engineers working at the field.

Foreign ‌staff were evacuated following ​an earlier drone strike ‌on the ⁠oilfield, sources told ⁠Reuters last month.