An airstrike early on Monday (April 6, 2026) struck a residential building in a city southwest of Iran’s capital, Tehran, killing at least 13 people, Iranian media reported. Neither Israel nor the U.S. claimed the strikes early on Monday, but they came after Donald Trump issued a threat to Iran that it must reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Airstrikes on early Monday morning also targeted the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran.
Iran’s Culture Minister Sayed Reza Salihi-Amiri has dismissed President Donald Trump’s latest threats, calling the U.S. leader an “unstable, delusional figure.” “It seems Trump has become a phenomenon that neither Iranians nor Americans are able to fully analyse,” said Mr. Salihi-Amiri. He said the Strait of Hormuz is “open to the world but closed to Iran’s enemies.”
Iran struck infrastructure targets in neighbouring Gulf countries, challenging the U.S. account of the rescue mission and threatened to restrict another heavily used waterway in the region, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Iran also shot down another U.S. military plane, demonstrating both the perils of the bombing campaign and the ability of Iran’s military to hit back.
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