Middle East crisis live: Tehran warns Trump over strait of Hormuz threat; Netanyahu suggests Israel helped US rescue airman

Iran’s parliamentary speaker decries US president’s ‘reckless moves’ after expletive-ridden threat; Israeli PM says Trump ‘expressed his appreciation for Israel’s help’

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/05/trump-warns-iran-to-reopen-strait-of-hormuz-by-tuesday-or-face-hell">Trump warns Iran to reopen strait of Hormuz by Tuesday or face ‘hell’

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/05/trump-iran-threats-politician-reactions">‘Unhinged madman’: US politicians react to Trump Iran threat

Welcome to the Guardian’s continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East.

Iran’s parliamentary speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has condemned Donald Trump’s threats to target energy and transport infrastructure, saying he was being misled by Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump was https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/05/trump-iran-threats-politician-reactions">sharply rebuked by US politicians, including Republican former ally Marjorie Taylor Greene, who called on the administration to “intervene in Trump’s madness”, adding the president “has gone insane, and all of you are complicit”.

Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer wrote that “the President of the United States is ranting like an unhinged madman on social media”.

Schumer added: “He’s threatening possible war crimes and alienating allies.

This is who he is, but this is not who we are.

Our country deserves so much better.”

Crude oil prices opened higher on Monday after Trump’s threats to Iran. West Texas Intermediate – the US benchmark – rose 1.86% to $113.62 a barrel while North Sea Brent crude was also higher at the week’s market opening, climbing 1.16% to $110.30 a barrel.

The second crew member of https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/05/timeline-us-military-jets-shot-down">a downed F-15E fighter jet was rescued by the US overnight, ending a two-day search after the warplane crashed in south-west Iran.

Trump said the crew member was “seriously wounded” but “safe and sound” after a mission that was reportedly made possible with the help of CIA subterfuge.

At least five people were reported to have been killed in US-Israeli attacks in south-west Iran during the rescue operations.

On Sunday, Iran said it struck a petrochemicals complex in Bahrain.

Video footage showed thick black smoke rising from the site.

The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation said a number of its facilities had been targeted by Iranian drone attacks, resulting in fires and “significant material losses”.

Kuwait also reported that two power and water desalination plants sustained “significant material damage” after being attacked by Iranian drones.

Israeli attacks in Lebanon on Sunday killed at least 15 people, the country’s health ministry said, while Israel’s military chief visited troops in southern Lebanon and pledged to intensify strikes against Hezbollah.

One of Israel’s strikes in Beirut on Sunday killed at least five people and wounded 52 in the Jnah neighbourhood, the Lebanese ministry said.