The day Trump’s Iran threat gripped the world

. Some dusted off old camping stoves and refilled oil canisters. “When the pain becomes deep enough, the fear fades,” a 42-year-old Iranian woman said, citing five weeks of war and years of repression and economic crisis in the country.Less than 30 minutes after Trump’s post, Iranian officials told Egypt that Tehran had cut off direct communications with U.S. negotiators, according to officials from an Arab government.

Officials from multiple Arab governments warned that the president’s threat would likely have the opposite effect on Iran’s hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which had signaled that it would plunge the region into darkness if Iranian infrastructure was attacked.Trump’s post made headlines in Israel as people there were getting ready for the end of Passover. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert read the message just before sirens warning of an Iranian missile threat went off in central Israel and sent him into his home’s bomb shelter. “I tend not to accept the statement by President Trump at face value,” Olmert said from his shelter.

“I want to believe what he meant is we will destroy the regime. I don’t think we can accept any destruction, total or partial, of Iranian civilization.”At 9 a.m., Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Dan Caine logged on to their daily secure videoconference with Adm.

Brad Cooper, the commander of U.S. CentralCommand. Cooper and military planners at the Pentagon had been preparing for potential strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure, according to two U.S.