{"id":555341,"date":"2026-03-23T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555341\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:24:08","slug":"trump-postpones-military-strikes-on-iranian-power-plants-for-five-days-us-israel-war-on-iran-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/555341\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump postpones military strikes on Iranian power plants for five days | US-Israel war on Iran News"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump said on Monday that he has ordered the United States military to postpone strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for five days after holding \u201cgood and productive conversations\u201d with Tehran.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am pleased to report that the United States of America, and the country of Iran, have had, over the last two days, very good and productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East,\u201d Trump posted in all caps on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five \u2013 day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest announcement will be seen as a big relief in the region, which has been bearing the brunt of Iranian attacks, and across the world as the war on Iran has sent oil prices soaring and causing a global energy crisis.<\/p>\n

In efforts to ease the energy prices, Trump\u00a0on Saturday gave Tehran 48 hours<\/a> to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to all vessels, warning that otherwise the US would \u201cobliterate\u201d Iran\u2019s power plants. Trump\u2019s ultimatum was aimed at ending Tehran\u2019s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of global oil passes.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Osama bin Javaid said Trump, with his announcement, may have opened a potential off-ramp on its war on Iran.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the breaking news that everybody in the region and beyond has been waiting for \u2026 that Donald Trump, who declared this war unilaterally without legal backing, can end it unilaterally without any preconditions,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Analyst Mohammed el-Masry said that Trump\u2019s announcement may be \u201chis way of sort of giving himself a dignified exit\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the question that people need to ask is what the Iranians are going to do, and what the Israelis are going to do, and to what extent might they be willing to continue the war effort against Iran without US backing, if that\u2019s what ends up happening here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera\u2019s Mohamed Vall said that the Iranians will possibly climb down despite the three weeks of war. \u201cThe likelihood that they will refuse this offer from Trump is remote,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Iranians do not want to continue this war \u2013 they say it was imposed on them and the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have said that if there are guarantees, and further negotiations take place, and if there is no repeat of the same type of aggression or any kind of aggression against Iran in the future, and if there is a willingness to find a lasting deal, then I am sure the Iranians will not say no.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s foreign ministry a statement carried by semi-official Mehr news agency said that Trump\u2019s move is aimed at reducing energy prices and earn time to implement his military plans.<\/p>\n

It added that there are \u201cinitiative\u201d by regional countries to reduce tensions but that their concerns should be referred to Washington, \u201cthe party that started this war\u201d.<\/p>\n

Tehran denied there was a dialogue between Tehran and Washington.<\/p>\n

Iran had said it would completely shut the strait \u2013 a transit point for about one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil supplies \u2013 in retaliation. Tehran also pledged to attack energy facilities in Israel and Gulf countries.<\/p>\n

The de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has caused a spike in global oil prices and caused a shortage of cooking gas in several Asian countries. Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, on Monday warned<\/a> that the situation in the Middle East is \u201cvery severe\u201d and is worse than the two energy crises of the 1970s put together.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responded that if Washington went ahead with its threat, Iran would target power plants in all regions that supply electricity to US bases \u201cas well as the economic, industrial and energy infrastructures in which Americans have shares\u201d.<\/p>\n

In addition, the country\u2019s Defence Council warned that any attack on Iran\u2019s southern coast or islands would prompt the laying of sea mines that would sever Gulf shipping routes, according to state media.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera\u2019s Osama bin Javaid, citing conversations with diplomats, said that even during the Eid holiday, \u201cmultiple countries at different levels have been holding conversations with embassies or directly with the White House\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have told us they have been telling Trump that this process of escalation does not bode well for Iran or for Israel,\u201d he reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are multiple factors to take into account. One is the threat Trump issued about hitting power plants and energy infrastructure, and Iran\u2019s response in a tit-for-tat escalation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said on Monday that he has ordered the United States military to postpone strikes against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,5897,1259,44,41,39,42,40,772,1690,206083],"class_list":["post-555341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}