{"id":540393,"date":"2026-03-23T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/540393\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T12:16:07","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\/us\/540393\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump postpones military strikes on Iranian power plants for five days | US-Israel war on Iran News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The US president\u2019s announcement comes after he holds \u200c\u2019good and \u200bproductive conversations\u2019 with Tehran.<\/p>\n

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Published On 23 Mar 202623 Mar 2026<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump \u2060said on \u2060Monday that he has ordered the United States \u2060military to postpone \u2060strikes \u2060against Iranian power plants \u200cand energy infrastructure for five days after holding \u200c\u201dgood 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 day period, subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump on 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.<\/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 spike in global oil prices and caused 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, The US president\u2019s announcement comes after he holds \u200c\u2019good and \u200bproductive conversations\u2019 with Tehran. Published…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,801,129,3,452,453,21,1209,231941],"class_list":["post-540393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada","tag-us-israel-war-on-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}