Middle East crisis live: US and Iran race to find missing pilot; Iran rejects Trump’s ‘helpless’ call to open strait of Hormuz

<p>Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said it was combing an area near where plane came down in south-western Iran</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/military-tiktok-iran-war-trump-hegseth">‘I’m regretting everything’: #MilitaryTok reactions to war stray from White House messaging</a></p></li></ul><p><strong>Iran has executed two men convicted of membership in a banned opposition group and carrying out disruptive actions aimed at overthrowing the Islamic republic, the judiciary said</strong>.</p><p>The executions on Saturday were the latest in a series targeting members of the banned People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), after four other convicted members of the group were executed earlier in the week.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/04/middle-east-crisis-live-us-iran-war-missing-pilot-downed-jet-israel-bombards-beirut">Continue reading...</a>