President Donald Trump issued a series of increasingly aggressive threats to destroy Iran’s power plants starting Tuesday and bring “Hell” to the country after US forces rescued an airman from Iran more than a day after his fighter jet was shot down.

The president said he would act on the threat if the country’s leaders don’t agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday evening, ratcheting up pressure on Tehran.

President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post. Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.

President Trump is threatening to escalate the war in Iran, after telling the nation on Wednesday that the conflict could end in two to three weeks. Taurean Small has more details.

A year and a half after winning the White House by promising to lower costs and end wars, Donald Trump is a wartime president overseeing surging energy costs and an escalating overseas conflict.

Meet the Press Moderator Kristen Welker joins Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist to discuss how the war in Iran may not be going as planned for President Donald Trump who has vowed to end the fighting in a

Iran targeted more sites in Arab Gulf states overnight and into Friday, hours after US President Donald Trump issued fresh threats against Iranian infrastructure to pressure Tehran to start peace negotiations.

Israeli fighter jets have pounded energy infrastructure in Iran, hitting petrochemical sites and triggering an evacuation at a nuclear power plant.