President Donald Trump is threatening to destroy all of Iran’s bridges and energy crops in a four-hour blitz assault on Tuesday night time if the international locations don’t comply with a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by 8 p.m. ET.
“We’ve got a plan due to the facility of our army, the place each bridge in Iran will likely be decimated by 12:00 tomorrow night time, the place each energy plant in Iran will likely be out of enterprise, burning, exploding, and by no means for use once more,” Trump mentioned. “I imply, full demolition by 12:00, and it’ll occur over a interval of 4 hours if we would like it to. We do not need that to occur.”
A person stands with an Iranian nationwide flag alongside an intersection at Valiasr Sq. in Tehran, April 6, 2026.
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The president burdened that any deal should embrace reopening the Strait of Hormuz, saying, “We’ve got to have a deal that is acceptable to me, and a part of that deal goes to be we would like free visitors of oil and all the things else.”
He wouldn’t focus on specifics of ceasefire negotiations however mentioned, “we now have a energetic, prepared participant on the opposite facet.”
Trump has despatched combined messages for weeks, saying the struggle with Iran is winding down whereas additionally threatening extra assaults. Requested which one it’s, Trump replied, “I can’t inform you. I do not know.”
“Relies upon what they do,” Trump mentioned, earlier than repeating his menace to ship Iran again to the “stone ages.”
-ABC Information’ Mary Bruce
