Trump gave a 19-minute speech that promised to send Iran “back to the stone ages” and ended with stock futures falling. Iran shot missiles at Israel through the first night of Passover and again through Thursday morning. The B1 bridge linking Tehran to Karaj, the Middle East’s highest, inaugurated this year, was struck twice in the same hour — the second time as rescue teams were working the wreckage of the first. Eight people are dead. Trump posted the footage. Forty countries met in a virtual room hosted by Britain to discuss how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The United States did not attend. Hegseth fired the Army Chief of Staff, effective immediately, the fourteenth or fifteenth senior officer removed since he took over the Pentagon, the count depending on how you count. Austria joined the list of countries refusing US overflight rights. Iran denied seeking a ceasefire. Brent crude closed around $108. The UN Secretary-General said the world is “on the edge of a wider war.” Passover began at sundown.
