{"id":2000107770,"date":"2026-04-08T09:48:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/?p=2000107770"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T07:54:28","slug":"from-a-civilization-will-die-tonight-to-a-big-day-for-world-peace-trumps-12-hour-whiplash-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/from-a-civilization-will-die-tonight-to-a-big-day-for-world-peace-trumps-12-hour-whiplash-on-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"From ‘a civilization will die tonight’ to ‘a big day for world peace’: Trump\u2019s 12-hour whiplash on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The whiplash was breathtaking, even by Trump\u2019s own standards. On Tuesday morning, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that \u201ca whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again\u201d if Iran failed to meet his deadline to strike a deal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had set 8 p.m. ET as the cutoff, threatening to target Iran\u2019s power plants and bridges \u2014 actions that legal experts warned could constitute a war crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours later, the same man was singing a very different tune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In announcing a two-week ceasefire deal brokered by Pakistan, Trump wrote that Iran had proposed a \u201cworkable\u201d 10-point peace plan and declared: \u201cThis will be a double-sided CEASEFIRE!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then came the Trump Social post captured in the viral screenshot circulating on X: \u201cA big day for World Peace! Iran wants it to happen, they\u2019ve had enough!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He predicted \u201clots of positive action,\u201d said \u201cbig money will be made,\u201d and invited Iran to \u201cstart the reconstruction process\u201d \u2014 concluding that \u201cthis could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The contrast left much of the world blinking. The abrupt pivot came just two hours before his own self-imposed deadline, after Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif asked Trump to extend the ultimatum and urged Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as a goodwill gesture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not the first time. Since the war began on February 28, Trump has repeatedly imposed deadlines linked to threats, only to extend them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This particular escalation-and-retreat cycle was sharper than most. Just hours before the ceasefire announcement, Trump had described the looming crossroads as \u201cone of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world,\u201d and warned that \u201c47 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critics were quick to point out the contradiction. As commentator Mario Nawfal noted on X: \u201cTwelve hours ago he threatened to end an entire civilization. Now he\u2019s\u2026\u201d \u2014 with the rest of the sentence left to speak for itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ceasefire marks the most significant pause in a war that has rattled global energy markets, sent oil prices soaring, and drawn in regional powers since the United States and Israel launched their campaign against Iran\u2019s military and nuclear infrastructure in late February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister Sharif declared that \u201cboth parties have displayed remarkable wisdom and understanding,\u201d and invited delegations from the U.S. and Iran to Islamabad on April 10 to continue negotiations toward a permanent peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether this latest ceasefire holds, and whether Trump\u2019s \u201cGolden Age\u201d rhetoric lasts longer than a news cycle, remains very much an open question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Within the span of a single Tuesday, Donald Trump managed to threaten the annihilation of an entire civilization, and then declare the dawn of a golden age for the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000107878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[151,69,101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000107770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-editors-choice","tag-homehighlights","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000107878,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tr.jpeg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1200,"height":800,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tr.jpeg","width":150,"height":100},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tr.jpeg","width":300,"height":200},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tr.jpeg","width":768,"height":512},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tr.jpeg","width":1024,"height":683},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tr.jpeg","width":1200,"height":800}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000107770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000107770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000107770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000107881,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000107770\/revisions\/2000107881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000107878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000107770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000107770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000107770"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000107770"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000107770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}