President Donald Trump has given Iran until Tuesday evening to open the Strait of Hormuz or face destruction of its critical infrastructure. “President Trump threatened to destroy all of Iran’s power plants if the country’s leaders don’t agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday evening, ratcheting up pressure on Tehran,” The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday.
Speaking to the WSJ, President Trump said, “If they don’t come through, if they want to keep it closed, they’re going to lose every power plant and every other plant they have in the whole country.”
President Trump later posted on Truth Social, without mentioning his ultimatum to the regime: “Tuesday, 8:00 P.M. Eastern Time!”
In a previous post, the president threatened to obliterate the Iranian regime’s infrastructure if it continues to take the world hostage by disrupting the flow of global oil and gas. “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***kin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH!” he wrote.
“Praise be to Allah,” he concluded.
In an interview with Axios, President Trump confirmed that his administration was “in deep negotiations” with Tehran, and all bets were off if a deal wasn’t reached by Tuesday. “There is a good chance, but if they don’t make a deal, I am blowing up everything over there,” he told the news website on Sunday.
President Trump’s warning comes as Israel resumes its strikes on the regime’s terrorism-linked oil infrastructure. In a recent airstrike, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eliminated the senior commander of the Islamic Guard’s (IRGC) Oil Headquarters.
“The Israeli Air Force successfully killed Mohammad Reza Ashrafi Kahi, a senior commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Oil Headquarters,” the Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday. “The IRGC’s Oil Headquarters generates billions of dollars annually in profits for the Iranian regime’s brutal police force through oil sales.”
The IRGC, the regime’s military arm, uses the oil revenue to finance itself and its proxy terrorist groups. According to the IDF, the slain IRGC commander “managed the commercial operations of the Oil Headquarters, estimated at billions of dollars annually, and advanced the development of the IRGC’s military capabilities, as well as those of the Iranian terror regime’s proxies across the Middle East, foremost among them the Houthi terrorist regime, and the Hezbollah and Hamas terrorist organizations.”
With the war entering its sixth week, Israeli airstrikes continue to degrade the regime’s leadership and its military capabilities.
“Over the past 24 hours, the Israeli Air Force struck more than 120 targets of the Iranian regime in central and western Iran. Targets struck included: ballistic missiles array sites in the IRGC, UAV production and launching sites, and air defense sites,” the IDF disclosed on Sunday. “The dismantled air defense systems constituted a threat to the Israeli Air Force’s fighter jets, and their dismantling contributes to maintaining the Israeli Air Force’s air superiority over Iran.”
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