'We can leave right now but I want to finish it up,' Trump says on Iran war

US President Donald Trump said on Monday Iranians are currently unable to challenge the regime because they lack weapons and face threats of being shot if they take to the streets.

"The Iranian people, when they don't hear bombs go off, they're upset. It's because they were informed that if they protest, they will be shot immediately," he told reporters.

"The Iranian people will fight back as soon as they know they're not going to be shot and as soon as they can get weapons. If they had weapons, not many of them, that would go the other way. And you know what happens? Iran would give up in two seconds because they wouldn't be able to take it," he said.

The Israeli military said on Monday it carried out a large-scale overnight wave of airstrikes in Tehran, targeting dozens of Iranian Air Force and IRGC aircraft and helicopters at multiple airports, as part of efforts to degrade Iran’s aerial capabilities.

In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces said the operation was conducted based on intelligence and involved dozens of fighter jets striking aerial assets and related military infrastructure.

The Israeli military said its strikes targeted three airports in Tehran: Mehrabad Airport, Bahram Airport and Azmayesh Airport. According to the statement, aircraft, helicopters, and additional military facilities were hit during the operation.

The military said Mehrabad Airport, which has been targeted multiple times during the ongoing operation, was used by the IRGC’s Quds Force as a central hub for arming and financing allied groups across the Middle East. It added that aircraft carrying weapons and large sums of cash had repeatedly departed from the airport to destinations across the region.

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Iran has conveyed its official response to a US proposal to end the war through Pakistan after weeks of high-level deliberations, the government's news agency IRNA reported, saying Tehran rejected a ceasefire and instead called for a permanent end to the conflict on its own terms.

Iran’s response, which consists of ten points, was finalized following what IRNA described as “comprehensive reviews at the highest levels of the system.”

According to the report, Tehran rejected the idea of a temporary ceasefire, citing past experiences, and stressed the need for a lasting resolution to the war that takes into account Iran’s considerations.

The proposal outlines a set of demands, including an end to hostilities across the region, the establishment of protocols to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, reconstruction efforts, and the lifting of sanctions.

IRNA said the response was delivered after developments over the weekend in western and central Iran, which it described as demonstrating Iran’s upper hand in the conflict.

The report also referred to what it called a “catastrophic failure” of a US heliborne operation and said US President Donald Trump had distanced himself from earlier threats by extending a repeated deadline.

Iran has conveyed its official response to a US proposal to end the war through Pakistan after weeks of high-level deliberations, the government's news agency IRNA reported, saying Tehran rejected a ceasefire and instead called for a permanent end to the conflict on its own terms.

Iran’s response, which consists of ten points, was finalized following what IRNA described as “comprehensive reviews at the highest levels of the system.”

According to the report, Tehran rejected the idea of a temporary ceasefire, citing past experiences, and stressed the need for a lasting resolution to the war that takes into account Iran’s considerations.

The proposal outlines a set of demands, including an end to hostilities across the region, the establishment of protocols to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, reconstruction efforts, and the lifting of sanctions.

IRNA said the response was delivered after developments over the weekend in western and central Iran, which it described as demonstrating Iran’s upper hand in the conflict.

The report also referred to what it called a “catastrophic failure” of a US heliborne operation and said US President Donald Trump had distanced himself from earlier threats by extending a repeated deadline.

IRGC-linked Tasnim published a list of US-linked universities in Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, presenting them as potential targets.

The report said three Iranian universities had been hit since the war began: Iran University of Science and Technology on March 28, Shahid Beheshti University on April 3, and Sharif University of Technology on Monday.

Tasnim then shifted to what it called US “academic assets” near Iran, listing six American branch campuses in Qatar’s Education City, four US-accredited universities in the UAE, New York University Abu Dhabi, the American University of Kuwait, the American University of Bahrain, and the planned Riyadh branch of the University of New Haven in Saudi Arabia.