{"id":6144,"date":"2026-03-27T05:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=6144"},"modified":"2026-03-29T09:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:57:21","slug":"us-president-trump-announce-extension-to-6-april-on-attacking-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=6144","title":{"rendered":"US President Trump announce extension to 6 April on attacking Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Washington. Donald Trump said on Thursday that he was extending the pause on attacking Iranian energy facilities by 10 days.Trump announced the extension to 6 April on Truth Social.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">In a brief post, the US President said: &#8220;As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">&#8220;Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Trump first announced on Monday that the US was postponing &#8220;any and all&#8221; military strikes against Iranian energy infrastructure following &#8220;very good and productive conversations&#8221; about a resolution to the hostilities in the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">He said on Truth Social at the time: &#8220;I 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">&#8220;Based on the tenor and tone of these in depth, detailed and constructive conversations, which will continue throughout the week, I 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.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The U-turn came just two days after he threatened to &#8220;obliterate&#8221; the country\u2019s power plants if it did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.<\/span><br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_260327_055227_709.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington. Donald Trump said on Thursday that he was extending the pause on attacking Iranian energy facilities by 10 days.Trump announced the extension to 6 April on Truth Social. In a brief post, the US President said: &#8220;As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newspaper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/FB_IMG_1774570007645.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}