US President Donald Trump renewed threats against Iran on his Truth Social platform, saying Washington would “blow up and completely obliterate all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!)” if a deal is not reached soon and the Strait of Hormuz is reopened.
Trump also claimed the United States was “in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran,” adding that “Great progress has been made.” He has previously warned of targeting Iranian power infrastructure if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed; an earlier deadline for action was pushed back to April 6. The president told reporters he was considering a military operation to seize Kharg Island and told the Financial Times he would “take the oil in Iran,” saying “maybe we take Kharg Island, maybe we don’t. We have a lot of options.”
Trump said the US-Israel campaign has produced what he described as “regime change” in Iran, arguing that the deaths of senior Iranian figures mean Washington is “dealing with different people than anybody’s dealt with before,” and expressed confidence that a deal could be reached soon.
Tehran has denied holding direct talks with Washington. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei called reports of negotiations false, saying only that the US had made a request via third parties and characterizing US demands as “excessive and irrational.” Iran has said it is under military aggression and is focused on defending itself.
The remarks come amid ongoing hostilities. Iran and Lebanon-based Hezbollah fired rockets toward the northern Israeli city of Haifa, where Israel’s largest oil refinery caught fire; two people were lightly injured and the blaze was later extinguished. Israel said it had struck roughly 40 facilities in and around Tehran over two days that it identified as linked to weapons manufacture, research and development.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps confirmed the death of naval commander Alireza Tangsiri, who had overseen operations that helped close the Strait of Hormuz; Israeli officials had earlier said he was killed in a precise operation.
Reporting on the conflict indicates several senior Iranian figures have been killed, prompting regional and international reactions including airspace restrictions and diplomatic protests. The situation remains volatile, and fresh threats to critical infrastructure — including power plants, oil facilities, Kharg Island and possibly desalination plants — have raised concerns about wider humanitarian and economic consequences.