President Donald Trump will give an update on the Iran war on Wednesday, April 1, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“TUNE IN: Tomorrow night at 9PM ET, President Trump will give an Address to the Nation to provide an important update on Iran,”Leavitt said on X Tuesday evening.
The news comes after Trump shared an updated timeline for the end of the war on Tuesday, telling reporters in the Oval Office that he expects it to be over within “two weeks, maybe three.”
“I would say within two weeks, maybe, two weeks, maybe three,” Trump said when asked about how much longer it would take for the war to end. “I think within two or three weeks, we’ll leave. There’s no reason for us to do this.”
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth on Tuesday said the coming days in the Iran war will be “decisive,” as the Islamic Republic’s armed forces threatened to strike U.S. tech companies in the Middle East and Americans at home saw higher prices at the pump.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened to attack U.S. companies in the region, including Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Palantir, Nvidia and Tesla, among others. The IRGC said strikes could begin as soon as Wednesday and urged those near U.S.-owned facilities to leave. The White House said the U.S. would be ready to respond. In Saudi Arabia, the State Department advised all Americans to shelter in place, citing threats against U.S. citizens.
Trump signaled that the U.S. might abandon its efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, telling allied countries to “start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore.” A day earlier, he threatened to bomb civilian infrastructure in Iran if peace talks fail. Iranian officials maintain that they are not involved in negotiations with Washington and vowed to “severely punish aggressors.”
As Iran tightened its control over the strait, which carries one-fifth of the world’s oil exports, average gasoline prices in the U.S. rose above $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022.
Source: USA Today
--Agencies
