Early on Easter Sunday morning, the president celebrated the mission as one of the most daring of its kind in U.S. history. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” Trump wrote on his social media website. Praise be to Allah.”AdvertisementIt was a precarious moment in a war the Trump administration repeatedly vowed would be over by now. U.S. forces struck targets in the area to keep Iranian forces at bay before deploying assets for the extraction. The loss of additional American aircraft was seen by some in Iran as evidence that the U.S. mission was not a complete success.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 05, 2026 21:37 UTC