Until Tuesday. Then hell?

Trump has set a deadline. By Monday, the Strait of Hormuz is supposed to be open. Otherwise, he writes in a post full of expletives, Iran’s power plants and bridges would be struck. They would be living in hell. That is what it says, from a sitting president, publicly, without qualification.

Iran has responded. Whoever attacks Iranian civilian infrastructure will receive a response against their own. The threat stands against the threat. Both are concrete. Both have deadlines.

The remains belong to a shop in Tehran of a family in the third generation

In between lies everything else.

Footage from the site appears to show destroyed aircraft, including at least two planes, with reports that helicopters may also have been destroyed

In Isfahan, American aircraft were shot down. Two C-130 transport planes, two Black Hawk helicopters - during a rescue mission for a downed US pilot. Iran shows images. Black smoke over desert land. A regional intelligence official says two aircraft were blown up by their own crews due to technical defects. US Central Command is silent. The pilot was rescued. Trump writes he was seriously injured, found deep in the mountains, while Iranian forces were searching for him in large numbers.

What exactly happened in Isfahan, no one fully knows. That is the condition of this war.

Five weeks. Daily attacks on Tehran. And still Armenian Christians celebrated Easter in St. Sarkis Cathedral in the Iranian capital. Families embraced, children exchanged painted eggs. Archbishop Sepuh Sargsyan directed his appeal to those who started this war - they should look up, to where love and mutual respect have their origin. Juanita Arakel, 40, an English teacher, said: whether we want it or not, we have small children who do not understand what is happening. They need a sense of normality. The cathedral was still standing. The city around it no longer everywhere.

Iran is experiencing the longest national internet shutdown ever recorded. 37 days without network, longer than any comparable case worldwide, documented by the monitoring organization NetBlocks. What is happening in Iran, the world now learns only in fragments.

And now comes the next fragment.

Planet Labs, one of the most important providers of satellite imagery, has informed its users that the US government has stopped the release of images from the Middle East. Images taken after March 9, 2026 are being withheld - until the end of the war, for an indefinite period, with exceptions only for urgent cases in the public interest. Satellite images were the last reliable tool of independent reporting from regions that are hardly accessible to journalists. This tool is now also restricted.

The war is becoming more invisible while it is getting bigger.

In Beirut, an Israeli strike without warning hit a three story residential building in the Jnah district, directly opposite the state Rafic Hariri University Hospital. Shortly before, there had been another strike nearby that had been announced. This one was not.

In the southern Lebanese town of Kfar Hatta, a place full of displaced people from the south of the country, an Israeli strike killed seven people, including a four year old girl. The Israeli army had previously called on the entire town to evacuate. Not everyone could leave.

Israel says it struck 120 targets in Iran within 24 hours, including air defense systems as well as drone and missile systems. Iran said it again fired rockets at Israel, sirens wailed, interception systems were activated.

The United Arab Emirates report having intercepted 507 ballistic missiles, 24 cruise missiles and 2,191 drones since the beginning of the war. On Sunday alone there were 60 projectiles, including nine ballistic missiles. In Abu Dhabi, the petrochemical plant Borouge is in flames, a joint venture of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and the Austrian company Borealis. In Kuwait, refinery and petrochemical facilities are burning, the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation speaks of significant damage. In Bahrain, 13 drones were intercepted within 24 hours, a petrochemical facility was on fire.

Egypt’s foreign minister Badr Abdelatty spoke on Sunday with US special envoy Steve Witkoff, Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi as well as his Turkish and Pakistani counterparts. He warned of an unprecedented explosion in the Middle East. Pakistan is offering itself as a mediator and is ready to host peace talks. Oman met with Iran to discuss proposals for free passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Two days before Trump’s deadline.

Senator Tim Kaine said in an interview Pete Hegseth’s statement from last month - no pardon, no mercy for our enemies - was really dangerous. It encourages the mistreatment of American prisoners.

Hegseth has not commented on this.

Tuesday is coming.