PM Sharif asks Trump to extend Iran deadline by two weeks, calls on Tehran to open Strait of Hormuz during that period n Iran fires missile salvos at Israel Israel bombs key rail sections, bridges in Iran Trump will respond soon to Pakistan’s deadline extension proposal, White House says.

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD/TEHRAN/JERUSALEM - US President Donald Trump has been made aware of the request by Pakistani mediators to push back his 8:00 pm Eastern Time deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday night. “A response will come,” she added in a statement.

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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday asked US President Donald Trump to postpone his deadline for Iran by two weeks and implement a truce for that same period, also urging Tehran to allow maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz during that time.

“To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks,” writes Shehbaz Sharif, whose government is serving as a mediator between Iran and the United States.

“Pakistan, in all sincerity, requests the Iranian brothers to open Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture,” he writes on X.

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“We also urge all warring parties to observe a ceasefire everywhere for two weeks to allow diplomacy to achieve conclusive termination of war, in the interest of long-term peace and stability in the region,” Sharif writes.

The premier said that efforts to end the conflict are “progressing steadily, strongly and powerfully.”

In an expletive-laden post earlier this week, Trump warned that the US would attack power plants and bridges in Iran starting Tuesday evening if the Islamic Republic failed to reopen the key waterway. The US president’s deadline is set to expire at 8 p.m. EST.

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PM Sharif’s statement came less than five hours before Trump’s deadline to either get a deal or unleash a massive bombing campaign on Iranian infrastructure. Pakistan has been the primary mediator between the U.S. and Iran over the last several weeks.

Reportedly, negotiations between the US and Iran have made progress over the last 24 hours.

This proposal could give both sides a temporary off-ramp. A senior Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran was “positively reviewing” the Pakistani proposal.

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Hours before his latest ultimatum was set to expire Tuesday night, US President Donald Trump threatened that “a whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” if Iran doesn’t agree to his demands for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, as Tehran also boosted its threats against the US, as talks nevertheless continued.

“I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social site. “However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?”

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Trump added that “we will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. Forty-seven years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!”

Meanwhile, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned on Tuesday that it will deprive the United States and its allies of oil and gas if Washington crosses Tehran’s “red lines,” in a statement carried on state television.

“The Revolutionary Guards once again declare that if the American terrorist army crosses the red lines, our response will go beyond the region,” the statement said.

It said the paramilitary Guards will target infrastructure “to deprive the United States and its allies of oil and gas in the region for years.”

“America’s regional partners should also know that until today, we have exercised great restraint for the sake of good neighborliness and have had some reservations in choosing targets for retaliation, but all these reservations have since been removed,” it added.

And Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tuesday that he and 14 million Iranians have declared they will “sacrifice their lives” to defend Iran. Explaining the figure, the Associated Press said that 14 million Iranians had answered Iranian state media and text message campaigns urging people to volunteer to fight.

“More than 14 million brave Iranians have so far declared their readiness to sacrifice their lives to defend Iran. I have also sacrificed my life for Iran, I am, and I will continue to do so,” he wrote on X.

Iran has a population of around 90 million.

A senior Iranian source and two Pakistani sources told Reuters on Tuesday that Iran and the US continue to exchange messages through Islamabad, though hope remained slim for a breakthrough in the talks.

Tehran will not show flexibility as long as Washington continues to demand its “surrender under pressure,” said the senior Iranian source, who asked not to be named.

The source said Qatar on Monday had conveyed Tehran’s message to the United States and regional countries that if Washington attacks Iran’s power plants, “the entire region and Saudi Arabia will fall into complete darkness with Iran’s retaliatory strikes.”

He also warned that “if the situation gets out of control, Iran’s allies will also close the Bab El-Mandeb Strait.” In addition, two Pakistani sources told Reuters on Tuesday that efforts to facilitate talks between the US and Iran are still ongoing.

One of the sources, a senior security official, said Iran’s overnight strike on Saudi Arabia’s industrial facilities linked to US firms threatened to derail the talks. If Saudi Arabia were to respond to the strikes, the talks would be over, the source said, adding that retaliation could also draw Pakistan into the conflict under its defense pact with Riyadh.

The second source said Iran was “walking on thin ice” and that the next three to four hours were critical for the future of dialogue.

Iran’s “most central site” for the production of sonar and other underwater detection systems was bombed by the Israeli Air Force yesterday, the Israeli military said.

The facility in Shiraz, which the IDF says belonged to Iran’s defense ministry, “was used for the planning, research, development, and production of sonar systems that operate using sound waves, and are used to detect submarines, vessels, divers, and underwater missiles.”

The IDF said the strike “significantly damaged the maritime detection and defense capabilities of the Iranian terror regime, as well as its ability to produce and maintain submarines and maritime electronic systems.”

In another strike, the IDF says it struck a “central site” in Karaj used to manufacture naval cruise missiles and air defense systems.

Also, the Israel Defense Forces assessed that there could be increased fire toward Israel in the coming hours. The military says that the assessment has been made as US President Donald Trump’s deadline is set to expire in just over four hours.