Donald Trumpon Sunday issued yet another ultimatum to Iran for blocking theStrait of Hormuzonce again. The US President said that he hopes Iran accepts a "very fair" and "reasonable deal" which he's offering, else, theUnited Statesis going to knock out every single "power plant", every single "bridge" in the country. Trump said that he will no more show a "nice guy" attitude towards Tehran, adding that it was now time to end Iran's killing machine. The US President further informed that US negotiators were heading to Pakistan's Islamabad for another round of Iran peace talks but did not share any additional information regarding the names of US officials.

Taking to Truth Social, Trump hit out at Tehran and said, "Iran decided to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz - a total violation of our ceasefire agreement! Many of them were aimed at a French ship and a freighter from the United Kingdom. That wasn’t nice, was it? My representatives are going to Islamabad, Pakistan, and will be there tomorrow evening for negotiations. Iran recently announced that they were closing the Strait, which is strange because our BLOCKADE has already closed it. They’re helping us without knowing, and they are the ones that lose with the closed passage: $500 million dollars a day! The United States loses nothing."

Mentioning that Iran blocking the Hormuz Strait is only helping the United States, Trump said, "In fact, many ships are headed right now to the US, Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska to load up, compliments of the IRGC, always wanting to be "the tough guy!" We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single power plant and every single bridge in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!"

Pressing Iran further to accept the deal the US is offering, Trump wrote, "They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy, and if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran by other Presidents for the last 47 years. IT’S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END!"

The escalating standoff over the critical choke point threatened to deepen the energy crisis roiling the global economy and push the two countries toward renewed conflict, even as mediators expressed confidence that a new deal was within reach.

The strait is closed until the US blockade is lifted, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard navy said Saturday night. Hours earlier, two gunboats from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard opened fire on a tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said. It reported that the tanker and crew were safe, without identifying the vessel or its destination.

Roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil passes through the strait and further limits would squeeze the already constrained supply, driving prices higher once again. Meanwhile, a 10-day truce between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon appeared to be holding.

The fighting in the Middle East conflict, which is approaching the two-month mark, has killed at least 3,000 people in Iran, nearly 2,300 in Lebanon, 23 civilians and 15 soldiers in Israel, and more than a dozen in Gulf Arab states. Thirteen U.S. service members have also been killed.

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