Iran Responds to Trump's Threat to Seize Its Country on Tuesday Night, Shouting This
The Iranian government has officially rejected a proposal for a temporary ceasefire and demanded a permanent end to the war with the United States (US) and Israel. Citing Reuters, Tehran has emphasised that it will not yield to pressure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz unless its demands, including the lifting of sanctions and the rebuilding of infrastructure, are fully met.
Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported that Iran’s response consists of 10 in-depth clauses covering protocols for safe passage in the Strait of Hormuz and the cessation of conflict across the region. The Iranian side stressed that a comprehensive end to the war is non-negotiable and that they will not easily relinquish control over this global energy route.
Iran’s highest military command, through spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaqari, countered Washington’s ultimatum by describing US President Donald Trump’s statement as a grand delusion. Zolfaqari affirmed in a state television broadcast that the Iranian people will not be intimidated by the military threats issued by the White House.
“Trump is hallucinating. That warning is crude, arrogant rhetoric and an unfounded threat,” Zolfaqari stated, quoted on Tuesday (7/4/2026).
In response to the threat of physical attacks, Iran’s Deputy Minister of Sports, Alireza Rahimi, called for the formation of human chains by athletes and artists at various power plants on Tuesday. Rahimi stated via his X social media account that the people will unite to protect public infrastructure from potential airstrikes, which he described as violations of international law.
“We will stand hand in hand to say that attacking public infrastructure is a war crime,” Rahimi wrote.
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, also vowed proportionate retaliation following airstrikes that hit Sharif University of Technology in Tehran on Monday morning. Araqchi warned that Iran’s military strength would soon be demonstrated in response to the destruction of the educational facility and its artificial intelligence data centre.
“Aggressors will see our strength in response to the bombing of Sharif,” Araqchi said.
Trump himself immediately rejected Iran’s response and issued a final deadline until 8:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday for Tehran to reach an agreement. Trump threatened to destroy every bridge and power plant in Iran if the country failed to meet the deadline.
“Iran could be finished in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night. Without an agreement, every bridge in Iran will be destroyed by midnight on Wednesday, and every power plant in Iran will stop operating, burn, explode, and never be usable again,” Trump said.
This hardline stance is supported by Israel’s Defence Minister, Israel Katz, who threatened to obliterate all of Iran’s infrastructure and hunt down its leaders one by one. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that the attack on petrochemical facilities in southern Iran was a real effort to cut off the funding source for the country’s military.
“That attack is part of the effort to dismantle the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ money machine,” Netanyahu stated firmly.
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth added that the intensity of Tuesday’s airstrikes would be the most massive since the war broke out six weeks ago. Hegseth predicted that escalation would continue to rise sharply as the deadline given by President Trump to Tehran expires.
“Today will be the day with the most attacks since the war began, and Tuesday will see even more,” Hegseth said.