Hours before his latest ultimatum was set to expire Tuesday night, US President Donald Trump threatened that “a whole civilization 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?”

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!”

In an expletive-laden post on Sunday, Trump warned that the US would attack power plants and bridges in Iran starting Tuesday evening if the Islamic Republic failed to reopen the strait, and on Monday, he said “the entire country can be taken out in one night,” with a plan to destroy “every bridge in Iran.”

Speaking to reporters in Hungary on Tuesday shortly after Trump’s post, US Vice President JD Vance warned that the US has “tools in our toolkit that we so far haven’t decided to use” against Iran, adding that he was “hopeful” negotiations would avoid them being deployed.

“The United States has largely accomplished its military objectives,” Vance told reporters, adding that “there’s going to be a lot of negotiation between now and then” when the US deadline expires, at midnight GMT between Tuesday and Wednesday.

“They’ve got to know we’ve got tools in our toolkit that we so far haven’t decided to use. The president of the United States can decide to use them, and he will decide to use them if the Iranians don’t change their course of conduct,” Vance added.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned on Tuesday that it will deprive........

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