Trump warns Iran ’48 hours before all Hell will reign down’

The US military continues to search for a missing US airman after an F-15E fighter jet was shot down over southwestern Iran on Friday. One crew member has been rescued, but the other remains unaccounted for, with both the US and Iranian forces searching for him.

Iran and the United States confirmed that Tehran shot down the two-seat F-15E jet, while two US officials separately said the pilot ejected from the American A-10 Warthog fighter plane that crashed in Kuwait after being hit by Iranian fire.

Two Black Hawk helicopters searching for a missing crew member in Iran were hit by Iranian fire, but they flew out of Iranian airspace, two US officials told Reuters.

The possibility of the airmen being captured has raised concerns in Washington about the potential benefits for Tehran. This incident is the first time since the start of the war that Iranian forces have successfully shot down a US fighter plane.

President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Saturday: “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to make a deal or open the Strait of Hormuz. Time is running out – 48 hours before all hell breaks loose on them.”

On March 26, Trump said he would extend the attack on Iran’s energy facilities by 10 days to April 6 at the request of the government of the Islamic Republic.

In a televised address from the White House on Wednesday, Trump told Americans he expected the Iran war to last another two to three weeks, but said the conflict was nearing an end.

“We’re going to get the job done and we’re going to get it done very fast,” he said.

Iran’s foreign minister, in principle, kept the door open to peace talks with the US amid talks brokered by Pakistan, but he gave no indication of Tehran’s willingness to bow to Trump’s demands.

Foreign Minister Abbas Arakchi said on Twitter, “We are very grateful to Pakistan for its efforts and we have never refused to go to Islamabad. What we care about are the conditions for a decisive and permanent end to the illegal war imposed on us.”

Pakistan told The Associated Press on Saturday that ceasefire efforts “are on the right track.”

Iran continued to launch missiles and drones across the region, with the United Arab Emirates saying it had intercepted dozens of incoming threats in the past 24 hours.

Office of the American Tech Giant Oracle Dubai has been hit by falling debris, the city’s media office said, as Iran continues to shell the Middle East in response to US and Israeli attacks.

“Officials have confirmed that they have responded to a minor incident caused by debris from a fallen air barrier in front of the Oracle Building in Dubai Internet City,” the Dubai Media Office said in a post on Twitter. No one was injured in the incident, the media office said.

Oracle did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment from CNBC.

A CNBC journalist in Dubai reported hearing multiple interceptions overnight.

The US military is reportedly turning over most of its stealth Joint Air-to-Surface Missile-Extended Range, or JASSM-ER, cruise missiles to the war in Iran, Bloomberg News reports.

According to Bloomberg, the move would leave only 425 powerful missiles in reserve elsewhere.

The decision to reallocate $1.5 million worth of weapons from stockpiles in the Pacific came in late March, Bloomberg reported, citing a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

The Trump administration has revoked the green cards or U.S. visas of at least four Iranian citizens with current or former ties to the Iranian government, including two who have been detained by immigration authorities and are scheduled to be deported.

The action was taken after Secretary of State Marco Rubio determined that they were no longer eligible to obtain lawful permanent resident status or enter the United States, the Associated Press reported.

In a statement on Saturday, the State Department said the niece and granddaughter of former Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps chief Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US airstrike near Baghdad airport in 2020, were arrested by immigration agents late Friday after Rubio revoked their green cards.

“Hamideh Suleimani Afshar and her daughter are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” the statement said. Afshar’s husband is also banned from entering the United States, the statement said.

According to the statement, Afshar and her daughter had been living a “lavish lifestyle” in Los Angeles for several years and publicly supported the Iranian government and anti-American attacks.

“She is a vocal supporter of the Iranian regime, who has celebrated attacks on Americans and called our country the “Great Satan,” Rubio said in a post on Twitter. “The Trump administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support an anti-American terrorist regime.”

Separately, a projectile struck Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant overnight, killing at least one worker and damaging part of the facility, according to Iranian officials. The International Atomic Energy Agency said there was no increase in radiation levels but warned of the risks of attacks near nuclear infrastructure.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Araghchi warned that repeated attacks on the site could lead to a wider regional disaster, while signaling that Tehran was unwilling to quickly engage in talks, saying any talks must lead to a “decisive and permanent” end to the war.

Russian news agencies reported that Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear company, evacuated 198 additional workers from the Bushehr nuclear plant. Rosatom has been evacuating workers from the plant since the Iran war began in late February.

Yet Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has threatened to attack A group of American technology companies with operations in the Middle East, including Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft and Google.

The Guard warned on Tuesday that 18 tech companies would be considered “legitimate targets” in retaliation for US and Israeli attacks on Iran.

“From now on, for every murder, an American company will be destroyed,” he said in a Guard-affiliated Telegram channel.

The list of companies also includes Cisco, HP, Intel, IBM, Dell, Palantir, JP Morgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solutions, Boeing and UAE-based artificial intelligence company G42.

James Henderson, CEO of risk management firm Healix, said the increase in threats against tech companies is not sudden, but an ongoing pattern.

“Technical assets are now treated as part of the conflict, not peripheral to it,” Henderson told CNBC.

“It also indicates that future crises could target data centers and cloud platforms just as much as traditional strategic sites,” he said.

Iran attacked Amazon Web Services data centers in the Middle East in early March, causing the shutdown of many apps and digital services in the UAE.

Iranian state media reported an airstrike on a petrochemical field in southwestern Iran, with five reported injured so far. A projectile also hit a support building near the perimeter of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant, killing one person, Tasnim news agency said. Plant operations remained unaffected.

Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom evacuated 198 of its employees from the site on Saturday, a move that was planned before the latest incident, Russian news agencies reported.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military said it had launched a “strikes” on Tehran.

Israel is waging a parallel campaign against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon after the terrorist group fired on Israel in support of Iran. Early Saturday, Israel’s military said it was attacking terrorist infrastructure sites in Beirut.

— CNBC’s Terry Cullen, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.