The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of a Hawaii doctor accused of trying to kill his wife on a hiking trail last year.

Dr. Gerhardt Konig, 47, was charged with second-degree attempted murder. Prosecutors allege the anesthesiologist attacked his wife, Arielle Konig, near a cliff while on the Pali Puka Trail on Oahu for her birthday on March 24, 2025, by pushing her near the edge and then beating her multiple times with a rock.

The defense, meanwhile, has alleged that Arielle Konig attacked her husband first and that he hit her with the rock in self-defense — characterizing it as a case of “he said, she said.”

The jury began deliberations Tuesday afternoon, following three weeks of testimony in the Honolulu trial.

Gerhardt Konig pleaded not guilty.

If the jurors were unable to find him guilty of second-degree attempted murder, they would then consider whether he is guilty of attempted manslaughter based upon extreme mental or emotional disturbance, first-degree attempted assault, second-degree assault or third-degree assault.

Both Gerhardt Konig and his wife took the stand during the trial, presenting widely differing accounts of what happened on the hike.

Arielle Konig testified that the two had traveled to Oahu from their home in Maui to celebrate her birthday. She said they had been working on repairing their marriage after her husband found what she characterized as “flirty” WhatsApp messages between her and a colleague in December 2024 in what she said was an “emotional affair.”

She testified that during the hike, her husband pushed her toward the edge of the cliff. As they wrestled on the ground with him on top, pinning her down, he produced a syringe and vial, she said.

Arielle Konig further testified that her husband proceeded to beat her with a rock as many as 10 times, and that she believed he was trying to knock her unconscious in order to drag her over the edge of the cliff.

She recalled screaming, “Please help, he’s trying to kill me,” and that when two women happened upon them, her husband “froze” and she was able to then crawl away.

While testifying in his own defense over two days, Gerhardt Konig maintained that he never intended to hurt his wife and acted in self-defense when he struck her with the rock.

He told the court that his wife pushed him near the edge after they got into an argument about her affair, and that she hit him with a rock first while they struggled on the ground. He admitted to hitting her with the rock while on top of her, saying he struck her twice, though he denied having any syringes or trying to pull her toward the cliff’s edge.

Gerhardt Konig testified that he felt suicidal after the incident.

“I just felt hopeless at that point in terms of everything,” he said. “I felt horrified about what I did to her, that I had caused this to her, that I had resorted to violence against my wife, the person who I love the most in the world. And I just kind of felt hopeless in terms of our relationship, too.”

During closing arguments, prosecutor Joel Garner said Arielle Konig’s “straightforward” and “coherent” testimony was corroborated by the bloody evidence at the scene, the “severity” of her injuries, digital evidence and the testimony of other witnesses — including the two women who came upon the couple.

Garner alleged that Gerhardt Konig came up with a plan to kill his wife on the challenging Pali Puka Trail to avoid a costly divorce and called the defendant’s testimony, including his self-defense claims, “unbelievable.”

The prosecutor also pointed to testimony from Gerhardt Konig’s older son from his prior marriage, who told the court that his father admitted to trying to kill his wife.

Asked by the prosecutor to recount what his father said during the FaceTime call, Emile Konig testified, “That he would not be making it back to Maui and to take good care of the younger kids, and that Ari, my stepmom, had been cheating on him, and that he tried to kill her.” 

During his closing argument, defense attorney Thomas Otake said there is “reasonable doubt all over this case.”

He disputed the alleged plan outlined by the prosecutor, saying Gerhardt Konig never intended to harm his wife. He also questioned Arielle Konig’s testimony, calling her “deceptive” while pointing to her deleting messages with her colleague.

Otake argued that the call between Gerhardt Konig and his son was between “highly emotional” people, and that Emile Konig could not say exactly word for word what was said.

Gerhardt Konig was arrested following an hourslong manhunt, prosecutors said.

Arielle Konig testified she was treated at a hospital for “severe complex scalp lacerations” and showed the court scarring on her scalp.

She filed for divorce in May 2025, seeking full custody of the couple’s two young children.

Gerhardt Konig, who worked as an anesthesiologist on Maui, has been in jail since his arrest. Following his arrest, Maui Health said his medical staff privileges at Maui Memorial Medical Center have been suspended pending investigation. 

The woman reportedly known as the “Ketamine Queen” was sentenced to 15 years in prison for providing the drug that killed Matthew Perry.

Jasveen Sangha admitted in a plea agreement to working with another dealer to provide the “Friends” actor with dozens of vials of ketamine, including the dose that led to his fatal overdose in October 2023 at the age of 54.

Sangha, 42, pleaded guilty last year to one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine, and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury. She faced a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison.

Sangha, who appeared with her ankles shackled, told the court she takes “full responsibility for my actions” during her sentencing hearing in Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday.

“I am deeply ashamed of how my actions affected all the families here today,” she said, adding that she has “done everything I can to be a better person.” 

She cried as Perry’s family delivered emotional victim impact statements ahead of her sentencing by Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett.

“The pain you caused is irreversible,” Perry’s stepmother, Debbie Perry, said. “You clearly had a talent for making money, but you chose to hurt people. How sad.”

She asked the judge to “give this heartless woman the maximum prison sentence so she won’t be able to hurt other families like ours.”

Keith Morrison, Perry’s stepfather, also addressed Sangha.

“I don’t hate you. You’re a drug dealer. You supplied an addict,” he said, going on to recall Perry as “one of a kind.”

“Matthew was funny and brilliant and sad and miserable and happy and generous and kind and infuriating in every way,” he said.

Morrison reacted to the sentencing following the hearing, telling reporters the judge is “very fair” and “considered the case very carefully and delivered a highly reasoned sentence.”

He said he feels bad for Sangha’s family, and noted she was “visibly emotional” in court.

“You have to have a heart of stone to wake up every morning and make a business out of feeding off the addictions of vulnerable people who are desperate for drugs,” Morrison said. “Then when you’re forced to confront what you have done, if you don’t feel some sense of shame or sorrow, then you’re not even human. And she is clearly human. She is now facing the sentence.”

Prosecutors said in court filings ahead of Sangha’s sentencing that she should serve 15 years in prison for her “cold callousness and disregard for life,” and that she’s shown little remorse, pointing to recorded jail communications in which, they say, Sangha talked about “obtaining ‘trademarks’ and securing book rights on the events of the case.”

In a sentencing memorandum filed last month, prosecutors said Sangha ran a “high-volume drug trafficking business out of her North Hollywood residence,” where she stored, packaged and distributed drugs, including ketamine and methamphetamine, since at least 2019. Prosecutors said Sangha continued to sell “dangerous drugs” even after learning she had sold ketamine that contributed to the overdose deaths of two men: Perry and, years earlier, Los Angeles resident Cody McLaury. McLaury died hours after Sangha sold him four vials of ketamine in 2019, prosecutors said.

“She didn’t care and kept selling,” prosecutors wrote. “Defendant’s actions show a cold callousness and disregard for life. She chose profits over people, and her actions have caused immense pain to the victims’ families and loved ones.”

Sangha “had the opportunity to stop after realizing the impact of her dealing — but simply chose not to,” which warrants a “significant” sentence, prosecutors also said.

During Wednesday’s sentencing hearing, McLaury’s sister, Kimberly McLaury, recounted her attempts to intervene.

“I texted you to stop selling ketamine,” she said of Sangha. “Being caught was the only thing that stopped you.”

The defense, meanwhile, said Sangha, who has been behind bars since her arrest in August 2024, should receive a sentence of time served due to her “demonstrated rehabilitation.” 

“She has maintained sustained and exemplary sobriety, and actively engaged in recovery-oriented and rehabilitative programming while in custody, and has tremendously strong family and community support to facilitate successful reentry and reduce the risk of recidivism,” her attorneys, Mark Geragos and Alexandra Kazarian, wrote in a sentencing memorandum filed last month. 

In response to the defense sentencing memorandum, prosecutors continued to argue that Sangha has shown a lack of remorse and claimed she has attempted to minimize the harm she’s caused.

“For example, defendant harmed two overdose victims, but her sentencing briefing does not even mention Cody McLaury and only references Matthew Perry in passing, in the context of defendant attempting to downplay her role in his death and to heap the blame on others,” prosecutors wrote in their response, filed last week.

They also argued that Sangha “expressed a similar lack of remorse in recorded jail communications” – including one on Dec. 25, 2024, during which prosecutors said an individual stated, “We’re gonna sell those book rights,” and Sangha allegedly responded, “Oh I know, the plan is in, the f—— trademark is going down,” according to the filing.

“Even if said in jest, this conversation suggests defendant does not appreciate the severity of her offenses, and instead sees her crimes as a potential future revenue stream,” prosecutors wrote. “It also shows that time in custody has, thus far, failed in getting defendant to adequately reflect upon the grave harms she has caused.” 

Geragos has previously said that Sangha “feels horrible.”

“She’s felt horrible from day one,” Geragos told reporters outside the courthouse last year following Sangha’s guilty plea. “This has been a horrendous experience.”

In addition to Sangha, four other people were charged and pleaded guilty in connection with Perry’s death: the other dealer, Erik Fleming; Kenneth Iwamasa, Perry’s live-in personal assistant; and two doctors, Mark Chavez and Salvador Plasencia.

Prosecutors said Sangha worked with Fleming to distribute ketamine to Perry, and that in October 2023, they sold the actor 51 vials of ketamine that were provided to Iwamasa.

“Leading up to Perry’s death, Iwamasa repeatedly injected Perry with the ketamine that Sangha supplied to Fleming,” the DOJ said in a press release last year. “Specifically, on October 28, 2023, Iwamasa injected Perry with at least three shots of Sangha’s ketamine, which caused Perry’s death.”

Iwamasa pleaded guilty in August 2024 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine causing death and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 22.

Fleming pleaded guilty in August 2024 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death and is set to be sentenced on April 29.

Chavez and Plasencia have also been convicted for their roles in what prosecutors called a conspiracy to illegally distribute ketamine to Perry.

Chavez, who once ran a ketamine clinic, pleaded guilty in October 2024 to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine and was sentenced to eight months home confinement in December 2025.

Plasencia, who briefly treated Perry prior to the actor’s death, pleaded guilty in July 2025 to four counts of distribution of ketamine and was sentenced to 30 months in prison in December 2025.

ABC News’ Amanda Morris contributed to this report.

Accused Gilgo Beach, New York, serial killer Rex Heuermann might change his plea to guilty and admit to the murders at his scheduled court appearance on Wednesday, sources familiar with the case told ABC News.

Heuermann, a New York City architect, was arrested in 2023 and has pleaded not guilty to killing seven women whose remains were found on New York’s Long Island.

His trial is set for September.

The first victim was Sandra Costilla, killed in 1993. Valerie Mack was killed in 2000 and Jessica Taylor was killed in 2003. Partial remains of Taylor and Mack were found near Gilgo Beach and in Manorville on Long Island, while Costilla was found in North Sea on Long Island.

Maureen Brainard-Barnes was killed in 2007 and found near Gilgo Beach. Megan Waterman, Melissa Barthelemy and Amber Lynn Costello were killed between 2009 and 2010 and also recovered near Gilgo Beach.

As President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if the Iranian regime does not make a deal and open the critical Strait of Hormuz, people in the country said they are juggling feelings ranging from hope to despair.

Trump has extended a deadline to 8 p.m. ET Tuesday — which would be Wednesday, April 8, at 3:30 a.m. in Tehran — for the Iranian government to strike a peace deal or risk the annihilation of all bridges and power plants in Iran.

An internet blackout imposed by the regime makes it difficult to communicate with people inside Iran, so it’s difficult to gauge how people in the country are feeling. Some have managed to get messages to ABC News.

“I am against the regime and I want them gone with every cell of my body. I have participated in the protests against the regime. But by no means I agree with a foreign power destroying what has been built by my people, for my people, and for the future of our children,” Fatemeh, a 40-year-old engineer who lives in Tehran, told ABC News in a written statement on Monday.

Citing security reasons, Iranians like Fatemeh who have communicated with ABC News, spoke on condition that their real names not be used.

Sohreh, a 33-year-old journalist and resident of Tehran, said the conflict, which began with a Feb. 28 U.S.-Israel joint attack, recalled moments of joy as it appeared the Iranian regime was about to be toppled and disappointment that the Islamic Republican Guard Corps (IRGC) has refused to give up the fight.

“I danced so much to the news of Khamenei’s death, so much that my legs hurt and I fell,” Sohreh said in a message to ABC News, referring to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader, who was assassinated in a strike on the first day of the conflict.

But as the war, now in its 39th day, has dragged on, Sohreh said, “We ask ourselves what if the war continues?”

“When they hit Asaluyeh, everyone was feeling terrible,” Sohreh said of Monday’s strike by Israel Defense Forces on Iran’s southern petrochemical infrastructure in the Persian Gulf port city of Asaluyeh. “We wonder what to do if they hit the infrastructure. They don’t belong to the Islamic Republic. They are built by our own children. They belong to Iran and the future of Iran.”

On Tuesday morning, Trump posted an ominous message on his social media platform, saying, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”

“I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump wrote. “However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?”

Trump added, “We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”

Trump’s statement came after he told reporters on Monday during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, “The Iranian people, when they don’t hear bombs go off, they’re upset.”

“They want to hear bombs because they want to be free,” Trump said without attributing where he was getting his information from.

He went on to claim that the only reason Iranian civilians have not taken to the streets en masse to demonstrate against the regime is that “they will be shot immediately, and that’s an edict. That’s in writing.”

Leila, a 36-year-old resident of Tehran who works as a manager of a shipping company, said she agrees with Trump, telling ABC News on Monday that when she doesn’t hear bombs, she feels “upset.” Leila, who described herself as anti-regime, said she longs for the day she sees American soldiers in Iran to save them.

In an earlier message Leila sent to ABC News on March 30, she said, “We don’t have fear from the missile attacks, we just get very happy to watch them burning the bases of the IRGC.”

Darius, a 38-year-old anthropologist from Tehran, told ABC News in a message sent on March 25 that he was initially anti-regime, but as the bombing continued, his opinion of the regime had started to change.

“The noise of the bombs and the fact that they are actually killing a lot of civilians pushes us more towards let’s say rallying around the flag,” Darius wrote. “We are fighting this war as a country and even though the Iranian state is not my cup of tea and even though I detest many of the things they do, still, I prefer to stand by their side against a Nazi in the White House.”

At least 3,546 people, including 244 children and 1,616 other civilians, have been killed in Iran due to the U.S.-Israeli strikes since the war began, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News agency reported on Sunday.

American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraq, on March 31, has been released by her abductors, according to the Iraqi militia group Hezbollah Brigades.

Abu Mujahid al-Assaf, a security official with Hezbollah Brigades, also known as Kataib Hezbollah, announced that Kittleson was released on the condition that “she leaves the country immediately.”

In a post on social media, al-Assaf said, “This initiative will not be repeated again in the coming days, as we are in a state of war waged by the Zionist-American enemy against Islam, and in such cases many considerations fall away.”

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested the wife of a U.S. Army staff sergeant at the military base where he is stationed just days after the couple married, an attorney representing the family told ABC News.

On April 2, Sergeant Matthew Blank, 23, and his wife Annie Ramos, 22, were joined by relatives at Fort Polk, Louisiana, who were there to help register Ramos as a military spouse and get her moved in, Blank’s mother Jen Rickling told ABC News. But soon, ICE agents entered the facility and detained Ramos.

“I never imagined that trying to do the right thing — registering my wife so she could receive her military ID, access the benefits she is entitled to as my spouse, and begin the process toward her green card — would lead to her being taken away from me,” Sgt. Blank said in a statement. “Instead of preparing for our future together, I am now fighting for her freedom.”

Attorney Jessie Schreier says Ramos, who was born in Honduras, was 20 months old when she was issued an order of removal.

Typically, undocumented immigrants are eligible for a Green Card. Relatives of military service members may also be eligible for additional forms of relief.

“Annie Ramos is currently detained for enforcement of a removal order issued in 2005, when she was just 20 months old. At any moment, that order may be executed, resulting in her deportation to a country she has never known. Annie’s deportation would tragically separate her from her husband, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Matthew Blank, who is preparing for the possibility of his third overseas deployment,” Schreier said.

Ramos is eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and applied, but the program remains halted for new applicants after a yearlong battle in court that challenges the program. Ramos received a scholarship from TheDream.US, which helps undocumented youth pay for school.

“Detaining a 22-year-old biochemistry student who has lived here for two decades and is married to a U.S. Army staff sergeant preparing for deployment doesn’t make us safer – it weakens a military family, undermines our basic values, and exposes how far we’ve fallen as a nation. Annie Ramos should be released from detention and returned to her family. And our country and our President should use this moment as a wake-up call,” Gaby Pacheco, president and CEO of TheDream.US, said in a statement.

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said Ramos was arrested “after she attempted to enter a military base.” 

“She has no legal status to be in this country and was issued a final order of removal by a judge. This administration is not going to ignore the rule of law. She illegally crossed the southern border and entered the U.S. in February 2005. After she failed to show up for her immigration hearing, she was issued a final order of removal by a judge on April 7, 2005,” the DHS spokesperson said.

Rickling said Ramos “is everything you would hope for in a daughter-in-law.”

“She is kind, smart, and dedicated: she teaches Sunday school, she’s finishing her degree, and she loves my son with her whole heart. We absolutely adore her,” Rickling said. 

“I believe in this country. And I believe we can do better than this — for Annie, for other military families, and for the values we hold dear. My son and my daughter-in-law should be able to build their lives together here, in a nation that my son is so committed to serving,” Rickling added.

Ramos is currently detained at an ICE facility in Basile, Louisiana, a government database shows. 

Blank said he’ll continue to fight for his wife’s release.

“I am proud to serve this country. I am proud to be her husband. And I will stand by her, no matter what it takes,” he said.

Offset was shot and is currently in stable condition in the hospital, a spokesperson for the rapper confirmed to ABC News.

“We can confirm Offset was shot and is currently at the hospital receiving medical care. He is stable and being closely monitored,” his spokesperson said.

According to TMZ, which was first to report the news, the Migos rapper was shot outside the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.

Offset, whose legal name is Kiari Kendrell Cephus, was previously married to Cardi B and the artists share two children together.

His fellow Migos rapper, Takeoff, was fatally shot in November 2022.

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President Donald Trump is threatening Iran with an assault that some experts in the laws of war say would be illegal.

Trump said Sunday that if Iran did not agree to favorable terms for a diplomatic settlement of the war, “they’re going to lose every power plant and every other plant they have in the whole country.”

The president has said civilians in Iran would support the strikes because it would bring the Tehran regime closer to the capitulation Trump desires.

“We have — we have a plan because of the power of our military, where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by twelve o’clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again,” Trump said at a White House press conference Monday, saying the operation would take only four hours.

Trump has said he wants the Strait of Hormuz, through which Iran controls transit, to be reopened by 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Asked Monday if his threats to destroy Iran’s infrastructure amounted to a war crimes, Trump answered, “You know the war crime? The war crime is allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”

Experts in the laws of war say Trump’s wholesale threat represents a threat to commit perhaps a number of war crimes. Collective punishment on a population and the targeting of protected civilian infrastructure are prohibited under international law. Trump has also said he’d like to take Iran’s oil, which could amount to pillaging, also barred under the law.

The U.S. has incorporated the Geneva Conventions, which set humanitarian standards during armed conflict, into its own domestic law, subjecting service members to them.

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Rachel VanLandingham, who served as the chief of international law at U.S. Central Command during the Iraq war, and Margaret Donovan, a former assistant U.S. attorney who served in the Army’s Judge Advocate General Corps, writing in Just Security, said Trump has threatened “total war” in Iran, “a complete rejection of the legal limits the United States has incorporated into the law governing U.S. military operations for both pragmatic and moral reasons,” they wrote.

Brian Finucane, who was an attorney-advisor at the State Department from 2011 to 2021, said any finding that Iranian armed forces were using civilian infrastructure for military means would be a “fact-intensive” one.

“In principle, a power plant might be able to be a military objective that you could target if you could show that it was making an effective contribution to the enemy’s military action, and that the destruction of it would yield some definite military advantage,” Finucane said.

A power plant that generated power exclusively for a missile factory, for example, would be a permissible target.

“[The] problem here is that the president says, ‘No, we’re destroying all of them,'” Finucane said. “It’s not the case that all power plants in Iran are military objectives.”

In 1999, when the U.S. and NATO launched an air war over Yugoslavia, the Pentagon targeted power distribution facilities but not generation facilities, according to Human Rights Watch. Instead of using explosives, most attacks used carbon fiber bombs that incapacitated the facilities instead of destroying them.

VanLandingham called that an “operationalization” of taking “precautions in attack.” These methods are “legally required” to ensure critical infrastructure benefitting civilians can be quickly restored, she said.

Trump said Monday that Iranians “want to hear bombs because they want to be free.” There is no evidence to support his claim.

In a hearing on Capitol Hill in March, Air Force General Alexus Grynkewich, who is the commander of U.S. European Command, said he was watching closely the widespread targeting of civilian power infrastructure by Russia in Ukraine.

“What I’ve observed over the course of studying air power in history is that any time you attack a civilian population, you usually end up finding that it just hardens their resolve,” the general told senators.

In interviews with ABC News, experts in the law of armed conflict pointed out that while the laws are meant to mitigate civilian harm and suffering, they are in the first place designed to prevent the war.

VanLandingham said the administration is “celebrating the destruction, the violence, the imagery of violence” in its rhetoric and social media posts in what she called a “dangerous shift.”

“What we have is an erosion of a commitment to the basic concept that war is bad — that it is regrettable because of the suffering it causes and should be avoided at almost all cost,” she said.

The U.S. “agreed to these rules for very good reasons,” Finucane said.

“The most important rule is the threshold rule prohibiting the use of force after the horrors of the two world wars and the Holocaust. The U.S. played a critical role in establishing the [United Nations] Charter, which … prohibits going to war absent self-defense or authorization from the U.N.,” he said. “And the U.S. has violated that critical rule by launching this war.”

President Donald Trump is holding a news conference Monday in the White House briefing room, where he’s giving more details on the “daring” weekend rescue of a U.S. airman whose fighter jet was shot down over Iran.

“We’re here today to celebrate the success of one of the largest, most complex, most harrowing combat searches, I guess you would call it a search and rescue mission, ever attempted by the military,” Trump said.

Looming large over the president’s comments, however, is his latest deadline for Iran to make a peace deal or reopen the Strait of Hormuz — by 8 p.m. ET Tuesday — or face massive U.S. attacks on critical infrastructure, including energy and water facilities.

“The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night,” Trump said.

Trump told ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott on Sunday that if no peace deal is reached with Iran in the next 48 hours, “we’re blowing up the entire country.”

Trump has previously pushed his deadlines for Iran to comply with his demands.

But in a profanity-laced post on his social media platform early on Sunday, Trump told the Iranian regime, “you’ll be living in Hell” if it did not open the critical maritime shipping channel for oil and trade.

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Trump wrote in the post.

Experts have warned that possible attacks on civilian infrastructure could constitute war crimes and violate international law, a claim Iran makes as well. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, when pressed on the issue last week, told reporters: “Of course, this administration and the United States Armed Forces will always act within the confines of the law.”

Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, said in a post on X that if the U.S. attacks power plants, then Iran would deliver “a decisive, immediate, and regret-inducing response.”

Amid the threats of escalation, questions remain about the status of talks between the U.S. and Tehran, after President Trump said last week that the U.S. was carrying out negotiations with “much more reasonable” leadership.

Asked about reports of a new draft proposal that includes a 45-day ceasefire and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a White House official told ABC News on Monday: “This is one of many ideas, and POTUS has not signed off on it. Operation Epic Fury continues.”

When asked about the ceasefire proposal, Trump said earlier Monday at the White House Easter Egg Roll that he’s seen “every proposal.”

“It’s a significant step,” Trump said. “It’s not good enough ,but it’s a very significant step.”

Iran said it will not accept a ceasefire without “suitable guarantees,” a Pakistani security official told ABC News.