Washington– President Donald Trump has pushed back a Iran deadline To make or open a deal Strait of Hormuz From Monday to Tuesday, the latest of several delays to the deadline, they threatened that without an agreement “hell will be upon them.”
Trump’s previous deadline was March 23, but that changed several times over the following weeks as Trump vacillated between heated threats, announced delays and statements that negotiations were going well, sometimes in the same statement.
Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported on Monday that Iran has rejected the latest proposal for a ceasefire. Shortly after, Trump issued an ominous warning to Iran if it did not surrender, and suggested so Deadline is Tuesday at 8 p.m It was final.
“They won’t have bridges. They won’t have power plants. They won’t have anything,” he said.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned the United States that attacks on civilian infrastructure are prohibited under international law, according to his spokesman. Speaking to reporters, Trump said he was “not at all concerned” about committing war crimes with such attacks.
Here are some of Trump’s deadlines, his threats, and what happened next.
On March 21, Trump posted on Truth Social that if Iran did not “fully open the Strait of Hormuz, without threat, within 48 hours of this specified time, the United States of America will strike and destroy its various power plants.”
Iran had until the evening of March 23.
Then 12 hours before the deadline, Trump took to Truth Social to share the good news: that both countries had productive talks toward ending the conflict.
“I have instructed the War Department to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for five days,” he wrote, adding that this was contingent on the success of the discussions.
This pushed the deadline to the end of that week.
Before the deadline, on March 26, Trump doubled down on his threats on Truth Social: “They better get serious soon, before it’s too late, because once that happens, there’s no going back, and it’s not going to be pretty!”
But later that day, he extended the deadline by another 10 days, to April 6 at 8 p.m., and said on Truth Social that negotiations were “going very well.”
On March 30, Trump issued a mixed statement: he celebrated progress in talks with Iran while also expanding his threat to bomb if an agreement “is not reached soon,” adding that it “likely will be reached.”
“We will conclude our beautiful stay in Iran by blowing up and destroying all power plants, oil wells and Kharg Island (and perhaps all desalination plants!),” he wrote.
It’s unclear when “soon” meant for Trump, but no agreement had been reached as the deadline approached.
“Remember when you gave Iran ten days to make a deal or open the Strait of Hormuz, time is running out – 48 hours before hell breaks loose on them,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Saturday.
As the deadline approached, his posts doubled his threats until Sunday, when Trump pushed the deadline again in an expletive-laden post.
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day, all in one day in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll live in hell,” Trump said on Truth Social, followed by another post that set 8 p.m. as the deadline.
Trump then suggested on Monday that Tuesday’s deadline would be final, saying he had already given Iran enough extensions.
“The entire country could be taken out in one night, and that night could be tomorrow night,” Trump said. He added: “We have a plan, because of the strength of our army, whereby every bridge in Iran will be destroyed by 12 pm tomorrow.”
Mojtaba Ferdowsi Pour, head of the Iranian diplomatic mission in Cairo, said that Iran no longer trusts the Trump administration after the United States bombed the Islamic Republic twice during previous rounds of talks.
“We only accept the end of the war with guarantees that we will not be attacked again,” he told the Associated Press.
A regional official involved in the talks said efforts had not collapsed. “We are still talking to both sides,” he said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss closed-door diplomacy.
On the Israeli television station, Channel 13, the evening news showed a large digital clock counting down the hours and minutes until Tuesday’s deadline.