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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, April 6, 2026, in Washington.
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President Donald Trump is suspending his threatened attack against Iran less than two hours before the deadline the president set for Tehran. It's the latest in a series of deadline delays and use of menacing rhetoric that included Trump’s threat earlier Tuesday that “a whole civilization will die tonight." The Republican president initially set a deadline for March 23 but postponed it several times to Tuesday at 8 p.m. Eastern. On Truth Social, Trump posted that he agrees to withhold “the bombing and attack of Iran” for two weeks, subject to Iran immediately opening the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian officials said they had accepted a two-week ceasefire and that passage through the Strait of Hormuz would be allowed for that same period.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war. Its statement said it would negotiate with the United States in Islamabad beginning Friday. U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s pulling back on his threats to widen attacks on Iran. The president says that includes an array of bridges, power plants and other civilian targets — subject to Iran being ready for a two-week ceasefire and to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump’s latest threat over the Iran war hit a new extreme earlier Tuesday when he warned, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” if Iran fails to make a deal that includes reopening the vital Strait of Hormuz.
Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are saying President Donald Trump should be removed from office after he threatened Iranian civilization would “die” if it didn’t meet his demands. The episode unleashed demands for Democrats to oppose the Republican president in the strongest possible terms even though he eventually pulled back on his threat and agreed to a two-week ceasefire. Lawmakers are showing no sign they'll back off as they return to Washington. The new imperative from Democrats underscores how seriously many in Washington take Trump’s talk of a mortal threat to a country of 91 million people. The White House has defended Trump’s rhetoric as effective.
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