
President Donald Trump said he was in “heated negotiations” to extend his self-imposed 8 p.m. Tuesday deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz after Pakistan’s prime minister made a plea in an 11th-hour attempt to stop the U.S. bombing of Iranian infrastructure.
Asked if he would grant the extension request of two weeks, Trump told Fox News in a phone interview: “I can’t tell you, because right now we’re in heated negotiations.”