Trump says we're 'blowing up the whole country' if Iran doesn't make deal in 48 hours

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for an institutional mission to the Gulf countries, according to Italian government sources. Meloni is set to meet with leaders from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

She is the first EU, G20 and NATO leader to visit the region since the start of the conflict.

Meloni is working to strengthen relations with the three nations in the wake of the Iranian attacks and consolidating a strong strategic partnership.

French President Emmanuel Macron expressed concern over the war in Iran and suggested that the U.S. is starting to "jeopardize" the world order that it helped build after World War II, he said Friday, while speaking to students at Yonsei University in South Korea.

"Iran is a very bad regime — no discussion about that. I disagree with them on a lot of topics. But I don’t believe that we will fix the situation just by bombings or by military operations. Look at what happened with this type of operation in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Libya — we never delivered. Never. Even after 20 years," Macron said.

"So you have to respect the sovereignty of people. If people want to change a regime, they want to react, step up, they can do so," he said.

An American fighter jet appears to have been shot down by Iran, according to three U.S. officials. Search and rescue operations are currently underway, the officials said.

President Donald Trump said that with a “little more time,” the U.S. could open the Strait of Hormuz and take oil from it– making a “fortune” for America, in a post on social media.

“IT WOULD BE A “GUSHER” FOR THE WORLD???” Trump wrote.

The president's claim comes after the White House’s intervention in Venezuela last year led to American re-development of Venezuela's oil industry.

Trump touted his administration’s work on the “production and sale of massive amounts of oil and gas,” in Venezuela during his Iran-focused primetime address to the nation on Wednesday.

“And now we're working along with Venezuela and are, in a true sense, joint venture partners. We're getting along incredibly well in the production and sale of massive amounts of oil and gas, the second largest reserves on Earth after the United States of America,” Trump said.

At the same time, Trump has in recent days issued a variety of conflicting statements about whether the Strait of Hormuz needs to be reopened in order for him to end the war in Iran, repeatedly attempting to shift responsibility away from the U.S. for re-opening the Strait.