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U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Sun­day made ex­ple­tive-laden new threats to es­ca­late strikes on Iran and its in­fra­struc­ture if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hor­muz by his dead­line, af­ter Amer­i­can forces res­cued an avi­a­tor whose Iran-downed plane fell be­hind en­e­my lines.

A de­fi­ant Iran struck in­fra­struc­ture tar­gets in neigh­bor­ing Gulf Arab coun­tries, chal­lenged the U.S. ac­count of the res­cue and threat­ened to re­strict an­oth­er heav­i­ly used wa­ter­way in the re­gion, the Bab el-Man­deb Strait off the Ara­bi­an Penin­su­la.

In a so­cial me­dia post, Trump vowed to hit Iran’s pow­er plants and bridges and said the coun­try would be “liv­ing in Hell” if the Strait of Hor­muz, cru­cial for glob­al trade, isn’t opened by Tues­day. He end­ed with “Praise be to Al­lah.”