If you're asking is reddit down, that's not today's story — it's President Trump saying he could hit Iran's energy infrastructure and bridges, and Tehran warning of a "more severe and expansive" response.
A reporter asked whether he was winding down the fight with Iran or escalating it; Mr. Trump refused to say. "I can't tell you," he replied, repeating that uncertainty twice. He also said he pushed a deadline back to tomorrow rather than have it lapse the day after Easter: "They have till tomorrow... Now we'll see what happens." He added U.S. officials believe talks are happening in good faith and that "some incredible countries" are helping try to end the crisis.
Meanwhile, Lebanon's Public Health Ministry said an Israeli strike in a residential Beirut neighborhood killed five people and wounded 52. Among the dead was a 15-year-old girl and two Sudanese nationals; eight children were reported wounded. The ministry also described a raid on a vehicle in Toul, in southern Lebanon's Nabatieh district, that killed a mother and father and wounded their children, ages 9 and 15.
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In Tehran, a statement from the office of Mojtaba Khamenei — named in the statement as the country's new supreme leader — said "assassination and crime" would not disrupt Iran's armed forces. The message offered condolences to the family of Iranian Intelligence Chief Seyyed Majid Khademi, who the statement said was killed in an overnight attack. The statement also said Mojtaba Khamenei has stayed out of the public eye since the assassination of his father, Ali Khamenei, and other family members at the start of the war, and that he was named his father's replacement after that death.
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Mr. Trump was pressed on whether attacking infrastructure would amount to punishing ordinary Iranians for the actions of their government. "They would be willing to suffer that for their freedom," he said, arguing Iranians want the strikes and want freedom. He also described the country as living "in a world... where if you protest, you are shot." Separately, he said U.S. officials are hunting a leaker who revealed information about a rescue that complicated a follow-up operation; the president said Iran only learned a second service member was missing after that leak and publicly offered a reward for anyone who captured the pilot involved.
