Talks are underway as Iran finds itself on the eve of destruction.
On Sunday, Trump posted a Truth Social message mingling an f-bomb with the threat of real bombs – lots of them.
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F—– Strait, you crazy bast—s, or you’ll be living in Hell,” Trump posted on Sunday on Truth Social.
Although Trump has made drastic threats before, this one had negotiators working to avert the potential that Tuesday will bring devastation.
The Israeli Air Force struck Iran’s “largest petrochemical facility” a short while ago, Defense Minister Israel Katz says. https://t.co/UgjjMzpnQc
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A report from Axios said that regional nations are shuttling between U.S. and Iranian negotiators to craft a 45-day ceasefire that could be a precursor to the end of the war.
Trump said a “good chance” exists that a ceasefire could take place, but kept up the belligerent rhetoric, saying “if they don’t make a deal, I am blowing up everything over there,” according to NBC.
The framework of a deal was developed by Pakistan, according to The Jerusalem Post, which cited a source it did not name.
“All elements need to be agreed today,” the source said.
Iranian military capabilities continue to decline as U.S. forces relentlessly strike military targets inside Iran. pic.twitter.com/EyYkisgR5B
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) April 6, 2026
The initial 45-day period could be extended, Axios reported.
The source said that negotiators believe only a permanent end to the war can resolve the future of Iran’s nuclear program and the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran closed as a form of economic blackmail during the war to stop oil from reaching nations needing it.
Iran also has demands, which include a halt to Israeli attacks in Gaza and Lebanon, Axios noted.
The IDF confirms killing the chief of intelligence in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Majid Khademi, along with another top IRGC officer, in overnight strikes.
The military says it killed Yazdan Mir, known by his alias Sardar Bagheri, who headed the IRGC Quds Force’s…
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Axios’s reporting frames the chances of a deal as slim.
Iran said that if its infrastructure is attacked, it will reply in kind.
“If attacks on civilian targets are repeated, the subsequent phases of our offensive and retaliatory operations will be carried out much more crushingly and extensively, and the enemy’s losses and damages from persisting with this approach will be multiplied,” Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a representative for Iran’s military, said, according to The New York Times.
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