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United States President Donald Trump announced on March 26 that he is pushing off his deadline for Iran to agree to an American proposal to end the war by ten more days.
“As per Iranian government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of energy plant destruction by 10 days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 p.m. Eastern Time,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Trump announced just four days earlier that he would “obliterate” Iran’s energy sites in 48 hours if it didn’t allow safe passage to tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.
The strategic waterway — where roughly 20% of the world’s oil production passes daily — has effectively been closed since the start of the American-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic, with many vessels hit by Iranian fire there and in nearby waters.
On the morning of the March 23 evening deadline, Trump said that he would be delaying it by five days, claiming that Iran had reached out and expressed interest in an agreement.
“Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the fake news media, and others. They are going very well,” Trump added in his latest post.
The Trump administration has been weighing using troops to seize Kharg Island, Iran’s most critical maritime oil export hub, in the northeastern Persian Gulf as leverage over Iran to coerce them to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Thousands of marines and paratroops have been ordered to the Middle East.
Earlier in the day, a report by Axios confirmed that the administration is working on options for a “final blow” to the Islamic Republic that could see American ground troops deployed on Iranian soil.
If attempts to initiate high-level negotiations with Iran do not bear fruit and the Iranians continue to threaten shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. could initiate a final blow that would serve a dual purpose — improving its position in future talks with the Islamic Republic, or allowing U.S. President Donald Trump to end the war unilaterally with a victory image — ,according to the American news website.
Two US officials and two sources with knowledge told Axios that four options are currently being discussed by the Trump administration.
The first option would entail seizing Kharg Island — as previously reported by many news agencies —, or just imposing a blockade on it.
A second would be to take Larak Island in the strait, which has Iranian bases and radars that track ships transiting Hormuz, as well as smaller boats that can attack civilian ships.
A third possibility would be to invade Abu Musa Island in the eastern Persian Gulf, which gives Iran control over ships leaving the Gulf. The island — and the nearby Greater and Lesser Tunb islands — are held by Iran but claimed by the United Arab Emirates, a close ally of both the U.S. and Israel.
The fourth and last option would see the U.S. simply blocking or taking control of ships exporting Iranian oil. This seems the most convenient.
According to Axios, there are also plans under consideration for U.S. troops to seize Iran’s highly enriched uranium, believed to sit under ruined nuclear facilities deep at the heart of Iran. Alternatively, the U.S. could simply bomb the sites from the air again to ensure that Iran can’t reach the material.
Iranian officials have so far been cautious with regard to the ongoing diplomatic efforts, mainly mediated by Pakistan, with some even openly warning of deception.
The chances of these efforts succeeding remain very low as the U.S. and Iran are still too far off, very much on all issues, from the nuclear program, to the missiles, and the regional influence of the Islamic Republic. It is more likely that we will see more escalation.
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if you listened he told you that the iranians have sent ten oil tankers through the straits as a gift for the usa.
and if you kept up you’d know that the idf took out the iranian navy commander who was ordering the blockading of the straits.
but the usual anti american propagndas expected from bbc sources with its renowned credibity for creativity.
only a fuckwit like you would bother even listening to anything coming out of paedo chumpo’s mouth.
not to mention even believing a word of it. look up liar in the dictionary and there’s a picture of trump.
im so sick of listening to the peace prez lies i wish someone hid him in head with 2×4 so he shuts the f– –k up
jews and amerikunts are putting the “anti” in americanism, they do not need any help from anybody else. iran is impervious to decapitation strikes. this war proves it
hehehehe where’s your proof? the iranian navy at the bottom of the ocean? the air force that doesn’t exist anymore? or is your prove the fiction pumped out by propgandas from the neo nazi parties panicking because they’re falling apart like a roll of wet toilet paper?
you more proof americunts stupefied inferior species
the proof is all around you
like a dryer fire that blew out the ass-end of a carrier…yeah, you funny. those usaf follies falling from the skies on fire are even funnier. toasted zionists burn so nicely.
the proof is in the panic and lies of chumpo’s bootlickers. they are running round like headless chickens, begging for a ceasefire and begging russia and china to pull their chestnuts out of the fire. they get more desp[erate with every passing day.
iran will never be safe and then next china will come to next for destroy by usa (maga). if i’m lucky, trump will be put in prison for pedophilia and the democrat will destroy russia. so that the traitors putler and his gay lover the ass ad will have to climbing over the ruins of a collapsed and burned moscow. the son of shelom’s jewish wife paid iran drones through with betrayal.
and posting ignoramuses like you are to dim to see what is really going on.
these 10 tankers were delivering oil to china, after paying a 2 million toll to iran.
trump is losing patience…he will use nukes soon if iran doesn’t submit…heheheh
no he won’t. it would be quite in character for the bloodthirsty joo psychos to do it. because they are losing and they are desperate.
trumpstein will be discarded like a used condom by his handlers. he failed to deliver victory. he brought defeat and emarrassment to the “invincible” psyop of amerikunt shitraeli power
massive nuclear penetration of iran coming very soon…heheheh
that was irans plan.
shelomova was jewish. that’s why putler is so happy to kill slavs. putler also betrayed syria. bassel al-assad was a man and would never agree to such a dirty betrayal.the ass mom wanted maher al-assad as syrian boss. because she knew that fat greedy bullet pac man was a better boss than a traitor (the ass ad). nothing is sadder for a mother and for a country than the birth of a traitor. putler, the son of shelomova, is a jew, and therefore he paid for the iranian drones with treason.
and that would put an immediate end to trumps term of office.
the sheet is about hit the fun this weekend. good thing i have enough rice and beans to last me and my boyfriend for 7 years.
hey burro por delante. mal educado, tu padres no te enseñaron modales y buenas maneras?
se dice: my boyfriend and me.
you and your fictitious boyfriend like everything else you post
he’s such a looser.
the funny thing with these dumb jews and amerikunts is now they are fighting to keep the straight of hormmuz open wen it was open before their excursion…..
hahaha hahaha. where have you been for the last 47 years? grow up the oil barons have been using iran to rip the world off with gas prices for decades. only a dumb deadshit doesn’t know it
all you americunts=deadshits
inferior americunts pay double for gas as market food inflation will improve our ugly obesity—iran controls hormuz–impotent transgender americunts humiliated again
are you even awake? it’s too set up evs sales for china you idiot. too make deadshits run and buy electric and then beg for nuclear power stations so that the war machine gets all of the diesel and petrol to protect the profits of the oil barons and to make gas chesp0 for their 600 mlion dollar yachts and private jets whilst the deadshits are stuck waiting 4 hours to recharge their stupid evs.
venezuela and iran want be destroyed by maga because they want to cut china off from energy from venezuela, iran and saudi arabia. zelensky kiss mbs bos in saudi arabia and said that ukrainian female soldiers are ready to teach saudis how to have sex and use drones. zelensky said that iranian pilgrims should die walking through saudi arabia, which has 50 degrees of cesium, so that the saudis can go to ukraine and enjoy the green landscape.
all americunt inferior species—13 gender degenerates especially me are yearning to swallow persian jizz while multiple hebrew peniz pump my anuz w precious jew jizz
in your dreams obviously with your make believe boy friend wheelled in on a geriatric stretcher.
did trump really blow clinton as was in e. files, or is that just a believable rumor?
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iran destroyed 13 americunt bases so i tantrum while bibi pump jizz in my anuz
dump is a pedophile and a devil worshipper. https://gospanews.net/en/
chumpo is a worthless stinking piece of joo bootlicking s*it. both amerikunt aircraft carriers have been hit. it will take 14 months to repair one of them.