- All Americans in Bahrain have been advised to shelter in place until further notice, the US state department said Tuesday.
- The warning comes after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps declared “restraint is over” and threatened a response “beyond the region” if the US further escalated the conflict.
- President Donald Trump renewed his threats Tuesday to “decimate” Iranian infrastructure if Tehran doesn’t agree to open the Strait of Hormuz by 8 p.m. ET.
- With only hours left before the deadline, a senior Iranian source told Reuters that Tehran was still refusing to reopen the strait.
- Iran's Borna news agency said air defences had been activated over Tehran with fighter planes flying at low altitude over the city after Trump wrote in a new threat, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen but it probably will.”
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