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Iran’s Khamenei warns of ‘strong blow’ as Trump threatens to drop bombs, Putin silent on US ire
Furious comments issued by President Donald Trump over the weekend prompted a swift and aggressive response from Iran, while Russian President Vladimir Putin remains tight-lipped in the face of the U.S. leader’s ire.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, issued a warning on Monday and said it would respond «decisively and immediately» to any threat issued by the U.S. after Trump said there «will be bombing» and likely more tariffs if Tehran does not agree to a nuclear deal with Washington.
«The enmity from the U.S. and Israel has always been there. They threaten to attack us, which we don’t think is very probable, but if they commit any mischief, they will surely receive a strong reciprocal blow,» Khamenei said according to a Reuters report.
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President Donald Trump speaks to the press aboard Air Force One before arriving at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Mar. 28, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
«And if they are thinking of causing sedition inside the country as in past years, the Iranian people themselves will deal with them,» he added.
Despite Iran’s refusal and warning directed at both the U.S. and Israel, Behnam Ben Taleblu, an Iran expert and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said Khamenei’s comments are an attempt to «buy time» while balancing growing external and internal pressures on his regime.
«At once, Khamenei sought to both downplay the chances of President Trump or Israel taking military action while also looking to deter such an eventuality due to the regime’s own policies,» he told Fox News Digital. «This is a tightrope Khamenei will increasingly be forced to walk as he plays for time and engages in nuclear escalation.
«U.S. policy should be to keep Khamenei off balance,» he added.
While Iran takes an offensive stance against Trump and his ambitions to finally bring Tehran to heel on its nuclear expansion, Russia is taking a different approach as it refuses to bow to Trump’s plans to see an end to the war in Ukraine.
TRUMP SAYS HE IS ‘PISSED OFF’ WITH PUTIN OVER LACK OF PEACE PROGRESS: REPORT
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran. (Dmitry AZAROV / SPUTNIK / AFP)
Over the weekend, Trump said he was «pissed off» over comments made by Putin on Friday when he suggested the work Washington was doing to negotiate a ceasefire with Russia and Ukraine was moot because he believes the government in Kyiv to be illegitimate and therefore cannot sign any deals.
«If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault … I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,» Trump said, noting that tariffs could be as high as 50%.
The president later said his ire could «dissipate quickly» if Putin «does the right thing,» and once again noted he has «a very good relationship with [Putin].»
However, the Kremlin chief, who reportedly has another call scheduled with Trump this week, has not responded to Trump’s heated comments.
The chief spokesman for Putin, Dmitry Peskov, said on Monday that Russia will continue to work on «restoring» relations with Washington that he said were «damaged by the Biden administration» following Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, and noted that Putin remains in «open contact» with Trump.
However, Putin’s lack of public response and the toned-down statements from the Kremlin are all part of Putin’s broader strategy, former DIA intelligence officer and Russia expert, Rebekah Koffler, told Fox News Digital.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on his return to Washington, D.C., on Mar. 30, 2025, when he said he was «pissed off» at Russian President Vladimir Putin. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
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«Putin, like Trump, thrives on confrontation,» Koffler said. «Except his approach is different. The Kremlin deliberately is projecting that Putin is cool, calm, and collected now, which he is.
«The fact that President Trump reportedly got mad and used those words means to Putin that he finally got to him, the way he got to Biden, Obama, and others who called him a killer and other derogatory words,» she continued.
«Putin now feels that not only Russia has an upper hand on the battlefield over Ukraine and in terms of total combat potential over NATO, but he also was able to unbalance Trump,» Koffler explained. «That is the whole point – it’s a judo move.»
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EXCLUSIVE: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman laid out the timeline for the Artemis Moon landing and discussed the current delay to the Artemis II mission during an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital.
The agency announced Friday that Artemis III, Artemis IV and Artemis V will all be launched before the end of President Donald Trump’s second term. Artemis IV and Artemis V will be missions where astronauts return to the surface of the Moon.
«To be overwhelmingly clear, we did not stretch out our timeline or delay anything. What we did is insert additional missions, standardized, so we can actually achieve the national policy that President Trump set out to return American astronauts to the Moon, and build an enduring presence to stay,» Isaacman told Fox News Digital.
«Artemis II, we’re going to launch in a matter of weeks [and] go around the Moon,» Isaacman explained. «Artemis III will launch by mid 2027 with the aim to buy down risk and low Earth orbit for subsequent [Moon] landing attempts in 2028.»
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman told Fox News Digital that Artemis II will launch in early April and that additional standardized missions will enable astronauts to return to the Moon by 2028 under President Trump’s timeline. (Patrick T. FALLON / AFP)
The Artemis program was initially established by President Donald Trump during his first term in December 2017.
Isaacman is seeking to complete four Artemis missions under his tenure at the agency, while the Biden administration successfully completed just one non-manned test flight in 2022.
The NASA administrator was critical of the Biden administration for the delay in launches, telling Fox News Digital «the previous administration didn’t make any decisions over the last four years that need to be done.»
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Jared Isaacman defended the Artemis delays as necessary adjustments, criticizing the Biden administration for inaction and emphasizing a faster, more consistent launch cadence to build a sustained lunar presence. (REUTERS/Joe Skipper)
«That’s being corrected now,» Isaacaman said. «You need to standardize, you need to launch with cadence. That’s how you get back to the moon. That’s how you stay. President Trump’s 100% behind that.»
Artemis II was scheduled to launch in early February, though the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was transferred from the launchpad back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to repair a helium leak on Wednesday.
In response to the Artemis II delay, the administrator also pointed out that the three-year delay between the Biden administration’s last successful Artemis mission and the current one set the agency back.
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«You can’t launch a rocket this complex and important every three years, and expect to get it right,» Isaacman added. «There’s just, there’s just no muscle memory there. There’s going to be mistakes.»
«We’re not going to rush this, because, clearly, we’re, again, we’re relearning the same lessons, which means we didn’t get the technical root cause last time, three years ago,» Isaacman said. «We’re hoping, in a matter of days, we’ll have our arms around [Artemis II].»
The agency plans to complete four Moon missions during President Donald Trump’s second term. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
Isaacman said that the current launch window for Artemis II is set for early April.
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The 43-year-old billionaire was sworn in as the administrator of the space agency last December. Isaacman himself is a space fanatic, having commanded the first ever commercial spacewalk in September 2024.
In the less than one hundred days that he has served as administrator, Isaacman has been vocal about his dedication to Trump’s mission to return Americans to the surface of the Moon and beyond — a daunting task for a mission that was last completed during Apollo 17 in 1972, more than half a century ago.
«The approach we were taking is the right way, and it’s consistent with NASA’s history,» Isaacman told Fox News Digital. «We didn’t go right to Apollo 11. We launched with frequency, and we continued to learn and buy down risk.»
America has not landed on the Moon since 1972. (Getty Images)
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«NASA, throughout our history, has launched, on average, every three months, our design vehicles from Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, through space shuttle. Apollo 8 launched less than two months after Apollo 7’s splashdown,» Isaacaman said.
«This is how you get back to the Moon and be able to stay,» the NASA administrator added.
He also noted that funding for the missions and resources needed for success already exist at the agency, and that «we got everything we need.»
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One of the key components to ensuring the completion of each Artemis mission is labor, and Isaacman took issue with the large number of contractors that work with the space agency, yet are not employed by NASA itself.
Jared Isaacman, who has been outspoken about his support for President Donald Trump’s plan to return to the Moon, was sworn in as NASA administrator last December. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
When asked if he planned on transitioning contractors to NASA employees, Isaacman said, «100%.»
«One of the first observations I had in the job after visiting every one of the NASA centers is all of the core competencies that we either outsourced or lost over the years,» Isaacman explained. «Contractors are great and should contribute to NASA in areas that we are not supposed to be the best in the world at.»
«But when we’re talking about launchpad, launch control, mission control in Houston, those should be civil servants,» Isaacman told Fox News Digital. «That should be a core competency in NASA. We should be the best in the world at it. We are going to exercise the workforce directive that went out weeks ago to convert contractors to civil servants, rebuild core competencies.»
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The NASA administrator said that top companies who provide contractors, like Boeing, Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, have told him that they support the timeline that would ultimately achieve Trump’s vision of returning mankind to the Moon.
«We have universal support in this,» Isaacman explained. «Support from every one of the prime contractors in this program. Lockheed, Boeing, ULA, SpaceX, Blue Origin and all of the congressional leaders that have space equities understand that this is the way back to the Moon.»
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Estados Unidos e Israel lanzaron este sábado un ataque “de gran envergadura” contra el régimen de Irán, provocando explosiones en Teherán y otras ciudades tras semanas de amenazas de intervención militar. Teherán respondió con el lanzamiento de misiles y drones en represalia, según informaron los Guardianes de la Revolución. Mientras tanto, diplomáticos estadounidenses presentes en el Golfo y civiles israelíes recibieron órdenes de buscar refugio.
“El Estado de Israel lanzó un ataque preventivo contra Irán. El ministro de Defensa, Israel Katz, declaró el estado de emergencia especial e inmediato en todo el país”, indicó la oficina del ministro en un comunicado.
En un mensaje en video, luego de que Estados Unidos e Israel comenzaran a bombardear Irán, Trump dejó claro que el objetivo era amplio: derrocar al régimen instaurado desde la revolución de 1979. “Vamos a destruir sus misiles y arrasar su industria de misiles por completo. Será totalmente—de nuevo—aniquilada. Vamos a destruir su armada”, afirmó en el mensaje publicado en su plataforma Truth Social.
Asimismo, envió un mensaje directo a la población iraní: “La hora de su libertad está cerca”. “Permanezcan resguardados. No salgan de sus hogares. Es muy peligroso afuera. Caerán bombas por todos lados. Cuando terminemos, tomen el control de su gobierno. Les pertenecerá a ustedes”, agregó.
Posteriormente, el primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, afirmó este sábado que Israel y Estados Unidos habían atacado a Irán con el objetivo de “eliminar la amenaza existencial” que representa la república islámica.
“Hermanos y hermanas, ciudadanos de Israel: Hace instantes, Israel y Estados Unidos lanzaron una operación para eliminar la amenaza existencial que representa el régimen terrorista de Irán”, señaló Netanyahu en un mensaje en video difundido por el gobierno israelí.
Según el primer ministro, la acción conjunta creará las condiciones para que el valiente pueblo iraní tome su destino en sus propias manos.
La Guardia Revolucionaria del régimen iraní anunció el inicio de la primera oleada de misiles y drones contra Israel, tras los ataques coordinados de las fuerzas israelíes y estadounidenses. “En respuesta a la agresión del enemigo hostil y criminal contra la República Islámica de Irán, ha comenzado la primera oleada de amplios ataques con misiles y drones de la República Islámica de Irán hacia los territorios ocupados”, indicó el cuerpo militar en un comunicado.
Pocas horas después de los primeros ataques contra el régimen iraní, Israel había detectado misiles lanzados desde Teherán y llamó a su población a refugiarse.
El Ejército israelí explicó que el estado de emergencia se trata de una “alerta proactiva para preparar al público ante la posibilidad de lanzamiento de misiles hacia el Estado de Israel”. En un comunicado difundido en redes sociales, las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel anunciaron que, a partir de las 08.00 horas (hora local), “se realizarán cambios inmediatos a las Pautas del Comando del Frente Interno”, incluyendo la “prohibición de actividades educativas, reuniones y lugares de trabajo, excepto los sectores esenciales”.
Las autoridades israelíes también ordenaron el cierre del espacio aéreo al tráfico civil e instaron a los civiles a no acudir al aeropuerto. El Ministerio de Transporte informó que permanecerá cerrado hasta que las condiciones de seguridad lo permitan y que su reapertura será anunciada con al menos 24 horas de antelación.
La operación militar israelí ocurrió contra una zona cercana a las oficinas del líder supremo, el ayatollah Ali Khamenei, según la agencia The Associated Press. Por otra parte, el medio mencionó Estados Unidos está participando en los ataques israelíes contra Irán, según un funcionario estadounidense.
El líder supremo de Irán no está en Teherán y fue trasladado a un lugar seguro, según el informe de Reuters. Las autoridades iraníes bloquearon los accesos por carretera al complejo de Khamenei, en el centro de la capital iraní, mientras continuaban escuchándose más explosiones en distintos puntos de la capital.
Ataque de Irán a EEUU en Bahréin
Horas después de los ataques coordinados, Teherán también bombardeó con misiles la base de Estados Unidos en Bahréin, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Kuwait y Qatar. “Cualquier base en toda la región que ayude a Israel será nuestro objetivo”, dijo el portavoz del Estado Mayor de las Fuerzas Armadas iraníes citado por la agencia iraní Mehr.
Según este medio, el régimen de los ayatolás lanzó ataques con misiles simultáneamente a la mayor bases en la región, la de Al Udeid en Qatar, a la de Al Salem en Kuwait, la de Al Dhafra en EAU y a la quinta base estadounidense en Bahréin.
En medio de esta creciente tensión, la Unión Europea (UE) pidió “la máxima moderación”, y afirmó que garantizar la seguridad nuclear es “crucial”. “Garantizar la seguridad nuclear y prevenir cualquier acción que pueda agravar aún más las tensiones o socavar el régimen mundial de no proliferación es de importancia crucial”, señaló la presidenta de la Comisión Europea, Ursula von der Leyen.
“Pedimos a todas las partes que ejerzan la máxima moderación, que protejan a la población civil y respeten plenamente el derecho internacional”, añadió en una declaración conjunta con el presidente del Consejo Europeo, António Costa.
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