{"id":81985,"date":"2026-04-07T08:26:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81985"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:08:12","slug":"trump-warns-a-whole-civilization-will-die-tonight-but-says-iran-could-still-capitulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/trump-warns-a-whole-civilization-will-die-tonight-but-says-iran-could-still-capitulate\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Israeli Strikes Hit Iran&#8217;s Oil, Rail And Bridges Ahead Of Trump Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Associated Press:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul id=\"rte-e1379672-3238-11f1-9b54-2d9bbb832a70\" class=\"rte2-style-ul\">\n<li><b>The U.S. also struck military targets on the Iranian oil hub of Kharg Island<\/b>, according to a White House official who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The attack marked the second time the island was targeted. Israeli warplanes, meanwhile, struck bridges and railways in Iran.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The American leader issued the stark threat Tuesday, about 12 hours ahead of his deadline for Iran to agree to a deal that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz or face punishing strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Trump wrote on his social media site: \u201cA whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.\u201d\u00a0He added: \u201cI don\u2019t want that to happen, but it probably will.\u201d\u00a0But Trump\u2019s statement nonetheless kept the possibility of an off-ramp open, saying that \u201cmaybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1775550387\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"US-Israeli Strikes Hit Iran&#8217;s Oil, Rail And Bridges Ahead Of Trump Deadline\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Associated Press: The U.S. also struck military targets on the Iranian oil hub of Kharg Island, according to a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}