What to know
- President Donald Trump’s deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the key oil route between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, is set for 8 p.m. ET. He has threatened to destroy bridges and power plants if Iran doesn’t make a deal, though he has pushed the deadline previously.
- Iran has called on “all young people” to form human chains around power plants in case of possible strikes. Iranians have formed such chains around nuclear facilities in recent years amid tensions with the United States.
- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said around 14 million Iranians have answered the government’s call for volunteers to fight in the war. “I too … remain ready to give my life for Iran,” he said in a post on X.
- Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former Trump loyalist, called for the president’s removal from office using the 25th Amendment. Greene called Trump’s threat against Iran “evil and madness.”