{"id":582019,"date":"2026-04-04T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582019\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:17:08","slug":"trump-gives-iran-48-hour-ultimatum-warns-all-hell-will-rain-if-no-deal-reached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582019\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump gives Iran 48-hour ultimatum, warns &#8216;all hell&#8217; will rain if no deal reached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Saturday he is giving Iran 48 hours to reach a deal or reopen the <a id=\"S1orPiEhCjbl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/magazine\/article\/hkysjo0sbx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, warning the United States would unleash severe consequences if it fails to comply.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he had previously given Tehran a 10-day deadline to \u201cmake a deal or open up the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d a key global shipping route that has been largely blocked since the start of the war.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gelleryOpener\" aria-label=\"open article gallery\" data-image-id=\"ArticleImageData.Syg3FwoRibe\" id=\"image_ArticleImageData.Syg3FwoRibe\"><\/p>\n<p>1 View gallery <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ReduxEditableImage_ArticleImageData.Syg3FwoRibe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/rytvppIsZg_0_0_850_479_0_x-large.jpg\" alt=\" \" title=\" Photo: Anna Moneymaker \/ AFP, Stringer \/ Getty Images\" aria-hidden=\"false\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ReduxEditableImage_ArticleImageData.Syg3FwoRibe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/rytvppIsZg_0_0_850_479_0_x-large.jpg\" alt=\" \" title=\" Photo: Anna Moneymaker \/ AFP, Stringer \/ Getty Images\" aria-hidden=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Anna Moneymaker \/ AFP, Stringer \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime is running out \u2014 48 hours before all hell will reign (sic) down on them,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The latest warning follows an earlier ultimatum issued on March 26, when Trump set a 10-day deadline for Iran to reopen the strait, a critical artery for global energy supplies. That deadline was set to expire Monday evening Washington time.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Trump warned that failure to comply could result in U.S. strikes on Iranian infrastructure, including power plants.<\/p>\n<p>The Strait of Hormuz carries roughly one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil supply, and disruptions there have already contributed to rising energy prices and growing economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said Saturday he is giving Iran 48 hours to reach a deal or reopen the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-582019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582019","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=582019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}