What to know
- The U.S. military is searching for the pilot of a U.S. fighter jet downed in Iran today, a U.S. official told MS NOW. It was not clear if the jet was shot down or went down for another reason.
- President Donald Trump said in a post on his social network this morning that “with a little more time” the U.S. “can easily” open the Strait of Hormuz and “make a fortune” by taking oil. Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. would not be responsible for reopening the key oil route and that other countries would have to “take care” of it.
- Trump warned last night that U.S. forces will destroy Iranian bridges and power plants next, saying the country’s “new regime leadership knows what has to be done.”