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Published On 7 Apr 2026<\/span>7 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n The White House has denied that it has any plans to use nuclear weapons against Iran as a deadline imposed by President Donald Trump for Tehran to make a deal or face a massive onslaught looms.<\/p>\n The denial from Washington came on Tuesday, as the president employed apocalyptic language. Insisting that Iran capitulate to his demands, Trump warned that a \u201cwhole civilisation will die tonight\u201d.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Texas Democratic Congressman Joaquin Castro called on Trump to immediately make it clear that he is not considering using nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n Vice President JD Vance later said that US forces could employ tools they \u201cso far haven\u2019t decided to use\u201d. That spurred an account associated with former Vice President Kamala Harris to assert that Vance implied Trump \u201cmight use nuclear weapons\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cLiterally nothing @VP said here \u2018implies\u2019 this, you absolute buffoons,\u201d a social media post by the White House retorted.<\/p>\n However, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared less certain when asked by the\u00a0AFP news agency if Trump was prepared to use a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n \u201cOnly the President knows where things stand and what he will do,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n The original ultimatum was made by Trump on Saturday, when he demanded that Iran make a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz, through which about a fifth of global energy exports pass, or face an assault on key infrastructure, including power plants and bridges.<\/p>\n The deadline falls at 8pm Eastern time (00:00 GMT). Legal experts say targeting civilian infrastructure could amount to a war crime.<\/p>\n \u201cA whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don\u2019t want that to happen, but it probably will,\u201d said Trump on his TruthSocial on Tuesday. However, he said, \u201csomething revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n However, the Iranian response has been defiant. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said it will not hesitate to respond in kind if the US attacks civilian facilities.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will do to the infrastructure of America and its partners what will deprive them and their allies of the region\u2019s oil and gas for many years,\u201d the IRGC said in a statement.<\/p>\n Washington fails to calculate the critical assets that would be within Iranian fire range, it said. \u201cOur response will extend beyond the region if the US military crosses our red lines.\u201d<\/p>\n President Masoud Pezeskhian said that more than 14 million Iranians, including himself, have volunteered to fight to defend Iran.<\/p>\n The fiery threats, which have reached a feverish peak, between the US president and Iranian officials come as Israel-US strikes on Iran and Iranian attacks across the region and Israel intensified.<\/p>\n Vance confirmed on Tuesday that US \u2060\u2060strikes targeted military infrastructure on Iran\u2019s Kharg Island, a key energy export hub, although he said that oil facilities were not hit.<\/p>\n The island, a tiny one in the north of the Gulf, is where about 90 percent of Iranian oil is exported from. Seizing it or destroying oil storage tanks and pumping facilities would remove a key economic lifeline to the IRGC.<\/p>\n This is the second time the US has struck Kharg. On March 14, Washington claimed to have \u201ctotally obliterated\u201d all military targets there, with Trump saying that he had chosen not to \u201cwipe out\u201d the oil infrastructure.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli army had struck railways and bridges in Iran, and the military confirmed it had attacked bridge sections in several areas across the country, claiming that they were used by the IRGC to transport weapons and military equipment.<\/p>\n In Israel, sirens sounded in the north and south as missiles and drones were launched by Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to Israeli media reports.<\/p>\n Gulf countries, in the meantime, continue to bear the brunt of Iran\u2019s retaliatory attacks.<\/p>\n Saudi Arabia and Kuwait said they intercepted drones throughout the day, while the United Arab Emirates said it was responding to an Iranian ballistic missile that targeted an administrative building of a telecommunication company.<\/p>\n Still, mediating countries seem to be hoping that a diplomatic breakthrough could still be made.<\/p>\n In the early hours of Tuesday, Iranian ambassador to Pakistan, Reza \u2060\u2060Amiri Moghadam, said efforts \u2060\u2060to stop the war were approaching a \u201ccritical, sensitive\u201d stage, without offering more details.<\/p>\n His comments came after Iran proposed on Monday a 10-point peace plan to end the war, which Trump called a \u201csignificant step\u201d but \u201cnot good enough\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 7 Apr 20267 Apr 2026 The White House has denied that it has any plans to use nuclear weapons against Iran as a deadline imposed by President Donald Trump for Tehran to make a deal or face a massive onslaught looms. 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