{"id":9762,"date":"2026-04-05T00:05:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/9762\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T00:05:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:05:05","slug":"trump-gives-iran-48-hours-to-make-deal-as-us-hunts-for-missing-airman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/9762\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump gives Iran 48 hours to make deal, as US hunts for missing airman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Tehran had 48 hours left to cut a deal or face \u201call Hell\u201d, as US and Iranian forces scrambled to find a downed American airman.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump\u2019s latest threat came after a strike near an Iranian nuclear power plant prompted evacuations, and as Tehran announced fresh attacks and the Israeli military said it had detected another missile launch from Yemen.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards said they hit a commercial ship in Bahrain, as they maintained their tight grip on the Strait of Hormuz shipping lane and continued to strike economic targets in their Gulf neighbours they see as linked to the US-Israeli war effort.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The economic strikes are also going the other way. An Israeli or US strike on a petrochemical hub in the southwest of Iran killed five people, according to the deputy governor of Khuzestan province.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The war erupted more than a month ago with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, triggering a retaliation that has spread the conflict throughout the Middle East and convulsed the global economy \u2013 particularly due to the closure of the strait, a vital conduit for oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-1w1l3op e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775347505_777_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">WATCH: Donald Trump addresses nation<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: Donald Trump addresses nation<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cRemember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT,\u201d Trump said on social media, referring to an ultimatum issued on March 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Tehran had 48 hours left to cut a deal or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2314,12,8808,8809,8804,8805,34,8807,1197,10,349,11,8806,67,47,17,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-9762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-trump","8":"tag-deal","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-gmt","11":"tag-god","12":"tag-hell","13":"tag-hormuz-strait","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-iranian","16":"tag-march","17":"tag-potus","18":"tag-president","19":"tag-president-of-the-united-states","20":"tag-saturday","21":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","22":"tag-truth-social","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116349182327705506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}