Call for the last hundred meters to stop the escalation of the war. Proposals made by the mediating country for the US and Iran
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has asked US President Donald Trump to extend by two weeks the deadline he set for Iran to end the Gulf oil embargo, Reuters reports.
Pakistan was the intermediary through which the United States and Iran communicated their terms for the cessation of hostilities, but mediators in Islamabad did not get signals that the two states were willing to compromise.
“For diplomacy to run its course”
“To allow diplomacy to take its course, I honestly request President Truma to extend the deadline by two weeks. Pakistan, in all sincerity, requests its Iranian brothers to open the Strait of Hormuz for a similar period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture,” Shehbaz Sharif wrote in a post on X.
The Pakistani prime minister's attempt to reach a minimum compromise comes only a few hours before the expiration of the ultimatum given by Trump to Iran to reopen maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt confirmed that President Trump had received the proposal and would respond to it.
Neither camp has shown signs in recent hours that they are willing to make concessions. Donald Trump is “the only one” who knows “what he will do” in Iran, his spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, said on Tuesday, a few hours before the expiration of the ultimatum, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, 03:00, Romanian time.
Mutual threats between Tehran and Washington
Iran and the United States have continued to exchange messages through Pakistan, a senior Iranian security source told Reuters on Tuesday, but Tehran will show no flexibility as long as Washington continues to ask it to “capitulate under pressure.”
According to the source, Qatar sent Tehran's message to the US and countries in the area on Monday that if Washington attacks Iranian power plants, “the entire region and Saudi Arabia will be plunged into total darkness with Iran's retaliatory strikes.”
“If the situation gets out of control, Iran's allies will also close the Bab El-Mandeb Strait,” the source indicated.
On Tuesday, the leader of the White House launched the most severe threat against Iran, amid the ultimatum addressed to the regime in Tehran.
Donald Trump has again warned Iran to strike a deal, saying “an entire civilization will perish tonight” if no deal is reached to end the conflict.
“An entire civilization will die tonight, and it will never be brought back to life. I don't want it to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have a Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something wonderful revolutionary can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption and death will finally end. God bless the Great People of Iran!”, Trump wrote in a message posted on his social network Truth Social.
