Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz.

And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, fears of a broader escalation are growing after President Donald Trump threatened strikes on Iran's civilian infrastructure.

The closure of the Strait of Ormuz spikes prices for fertilizer, hurting American farmers during the critical spring planting season.

Farmers have to make choices. They plant less crops, they apply less fertilizer, or they switch the crops that they plant.

All of those have long-term effects.

And NASA's Artemis mission is making history, carrying astronauts on the first flyby of the moon's far side and farther from Earth than humans have ever traveled.

Welcome to the News Hour.

Tonight, the war with Iran is on the verge of escalation,

with President Donald Trump threatening to target Iran's power grid

and Tehran vowing even more forceful strikes on Israel and U.S. Gulf allies

if there is no ceasefire by tomorrow night.

The president simultaneously expressed confidence in a diplomatic outcome, but there's no

public sign of progress. Also today, the U.S. celebrated the successful mission that rescued

the American aviators shot down on Friday. Nick Schifrin begins our report on a busy day in Iran and at the White House.

Today in Tehran, another dawn lit up by airstrikes on an airport,

and an apartment building cut in half in an attack that state media reported killed six,

as President Trump threatened escalation. We have a plan because of the power of our military where every bridge in Iran

will be decimated by 12 o'clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be

out of business, burning, exploding, and never to be

used again.

I mean, complete demolition by 12 o'clock.

Yesterday he used coarser language, threatening, quote, Tuesday will be power plant day and

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