{"id":30105,"date":"2026-03-27T08:46:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30105"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:46:05","slug":"trump-extends-deadline-for-striking-irans-energy-plants-into-april","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/trump-extends-deadline-for-striking-irans-energy-plants-into-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump extends deadline for striking Iran&#8217;s energy plants into April"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The four-week war has spread across the Middle East killing thousands of people and hitting the global economy with soaring energy prices, fuelling global inflation fears.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The US and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28 after talks about Tehran&#8217;s nuclear program failed to yield a deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">On Thursday, Trump threatened during a cabinet meeting at the White House to increase pressure on Iran if it did not make a deal. He later posted on social media that he would pause threatened attacks on Iranian energy plants for 10 days until April 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by &#8220;the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well,&#8221; he added in his Truth Social post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Iran has said it is not engaged in talks with Washington and Trump has not identified who the US\u00a0is negotiating with in Iran, with many high-ranking officials killed in the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">On March 23, Trump announced a halt to all threatened strikes against power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period, but has now extended it to 10 days. Iran did not ask for a 10-day pause on such strikes, the\u00a0<i>Wall Street Journal<\/i>\u00a0cited peace talk mediators as saying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Trump told<i>\u00a0Fox News<\/i>&#8216; &#8220;The Five&#8221; program that the Iranians had asked for a seven-day pause on strikes on energy plants. There was no immediate reaction from Tehran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15766,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-30105","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"United States (US) President Donald Trump said he will extend the deadline to April 6 for Iran to make a deal to end the war or face the destruction of its energy plants, saying talks were going \"very well\", but Tehran dismissed the US\u00a0proposal as unfair","published_date":"2026-03-27 00:00:00","news_description":"United States (US) President Donald Trump said he will extend the deadline to April 6 for Iran to make a deal to end the war or face the destruction of its energy plants, saying talks were going \"very well\", but Tehran dismissed the US\u00a0proposal as unfair","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30108,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30105\/revisions\/30108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}