Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.
Iran and the U.S. Have traded heated rhetoric on social media.
That's after President Trump used profanity to threaten more of Iran's infrastructure.
Trump set a deadline of tomorrow night if Iran doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz.
NPR's Deep Parvaz is monitoring the response out of Iran.
Iran is hitting back after President Trump posted an expletive-laden message on social media
ordering Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
If they don't comply, he vowed to destroy more of Iran's bridges and power plants.
The official ex-account for Iran's permanent mission to the United Nations responded that Trump,
quote, seeks to drag the region into an endless war.
It added that his threat to target civilian infrastructure showed an intent to commit a war crime
and urged immediate international intervention.
Mehdi Tabotaboyi, deputy for communications and information in Iranian President Masoud Pazeshkian's office,
posted on X that President Trump had, quote, resorted to obscenities and nonsense out of sheer desperation and anger.
He went on to use similarly insulting language,
saying that the strait would open when Iran had been compensated for the cost of this war.
Deepar Vaz, NPR News, Vaughn, Turkey.
President Trump also says he 'll hold a news conference early this afternoon in the Oval Office, quote,
with the military.
This announcement came after he wrote online yesterday about the rescue of a missing U.S. Airman in Iran.