--- title: Trump Vows to Hit Every Bridge in Iran, as Iran Rejects Ceasefire description: Iran rejects ceasefire as Trump deadline nears and Israel says strikes killed IRGC intelligence chief. canonical: https://time.com/article/2026/04/06/iran-rejects-ceasefire-as-trump-deadline-looms-and-strikes-escalate/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2026-04-06T16:38:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-06T20:02:45.000Z article:section: World og:title: 'Every Bridge in Iran Will Be Decimated': Trump Renews Threat as Iran Rejects Ceasefire Offer og:description: Iran rejects ceasefire as Trump deadline nears and Israel says strikes killed IRGC intelligence chief. og:url: https://time.com/article/2026/04/06/iran-rejects-ceasefire-as-trump-deadline-looms-and-strikes-escalate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbaeab3dae674381b/69d3e4ec6310297d0073c12a/GettyImages-2268535801.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: GettyImages-2268535801.jpg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Every Bridge in Iran Will Be Decimated': Trump Renews Threat as Iran Rejects Ceasefire Offer twitter:description: Iran rejects ceasefire as Trump deadline nears and Israel says strikes killed IRGC intelligence chief. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbaeab3dae674381b/69d3e4ec6310297d0073c12a/GettyImages-2268535801.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Every Bridge in Iran Will Be Decimated': Trump Renews Latest Threat as Iran Rejects Ceasefire Offer > Sponsored content. 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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. 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A resident weeps while talking on the phone near a residential building that was hit in an airstrike earlier this morning on March 30, 2026 in the west of Tehran, Iran.Majid Saeedi/Getty Images by [Kay Armin Serjoie](https://time.com/author/kay-armin-serjoie/) and [Brian Bennett](https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/) Updated: Apr 6, 2026 8:02 PM UTCPublished: Apr 6, 2026 4:38 PM UTC President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his threats to [blow up civilian infrastructure ](https://time.com/article/2026/04/05/trump-power-plants-iran-hormuz/)like bridges and power plants inside Iran, soon after Tehran rejected proposals for a ceasefire to its [5-week long war](https://time.com/article/2026/03/29/iran-war-pakistan-talks-trump/) with the United States and Israel. “Every bridge in Iran will be decimated” by midnight on Tuesday, Trump told reporters. “Every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again.” “It will happen over a period of four hours—if we want it to,” he added. “We don’t want that to happen.” The dark language came during a lengthy White House press conference in which Trump dismissed questions about whether such attacks—which would harm civilians throughout the country and put civilian lives at risk—would [amount to war crimes](https://time.com/6164780/ukraine-russia-war-crimes-history/). At one point, the President berated a New York _Times_ reporter who posed the question, calling the paper “failing” and telling the reporter to be “quiet.” Trump said he would strike every major bridge and power plant in the country by the end of the day Tuesday, if Iran didn’t agree to his terms, which included re-opening the Strait of Hormuz, ending its building of ballistic missiles and completely shutting down its nuclear program. “We’re never going to let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” said Trump, calling the leaders of Iran “mentally disturbed people.” As the President spoke to reporters, one of his main negotiators with Iran, Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, was seated along the briefing room wall. Trump’s latest threats follow his assurances in recent days that the war with Iran would be finished in two to three weeks. But on Monday, Trump acknowledged he didn’t know how long the conflict would drag on, as he described a plan to ramp up the U.S. bombing campaign. Asked if the war was winding down or escalating, he said, “I can’t tell you. It depends on what they do.” In rejecting the ceasefire offer, Iranian officials are calling “for a permanent end to the war”, according to the official state news agency IRNA. “In this response, which consists of ten paragraphs, Iran, based on previous experiences, while rejecting a ceasefire, emphasized the need for a permanent end to the war while respecting Iran's considerations,” IRNA reported. IRNA added that Iran’s response includes demands such as “an end to conflicts in the region, a protocol for safe passage through the[ Strait of Hormuz](https://time.com/article/2026/03/17/what-is-the-strait-of-hormuz-global-trade-oil-flow-iran-war/), reconstruction \[reparation of war damages\], and lifting sanctions.” Iran has responded to U.S. and Israeli attacks by effectively closing Hormuz, a crucial [passage between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman](https://time.com/7382242/strait-of-hormuz-closure-threat-iran-war-trade-gas-oil-prices/) through which around a fifth of global oil production flows. **Read more:** [_The Strait of Hormuz Crisis Is Driving a Wave of Global Energy Rationing_](https://time.com/article/2026/04/05/strait-of-hormuz-fuel-rationing-oil/) The closure of the Strait, as well as air and missile strikes on oil and gas facilities on both sides of the Gulf, triggered a sharp rise in global gas and energy prices, with hikes as high as 20% to 30% in the United States and Europe at the pumps. On April 6, the U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate climbed to $115.48 per barrel, up by 3.5 per cent, and Brent crude rose to almost $112 per barrel. ## Trump rejects Iran’s proposal Trump, who has threatened to rain "hell" on Tehran if it did not make a deal by 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday to open the vital route for global energy supplies, rejected the Iranian proposal. "They made a proposal, and it's a significant proposal. It's a significant step. It's not good enough," Trump told reporters earlier on Monday at an annual White House Easter event. While Iranian officials have not yet made any public comment on the way the talks are going, state media has reported that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has spent the last 72 hours in a flurry of phone calls with his counterparts from India, Russia, Turkey, Japan, Qatar, France, Egypt and Pakistan, some of whom are said to be acting as intermediaries in talks with the U.S.  Courtney Bonneau, Anadolu, Atta Kenare, China News Service, NurPhoto, and ATPImages—Getty Images ## Israel says it killed Islamic Revolutionary Guards intelligence chief Israel said on Monday that it had killed the Revolutionary Guards' intelligence chief, Majid Khademi, in [airstrikes on the country](https://time.com/article/2026/03/27/israel-vows-to-intensify-and-expand-strikes-against-iran-as-tehran-warns-civilians-near-u-s-targets-to-evacuate/). “Major General Majid Khademi, the powerful and erudite head of the Intelligence Organization… was martyred in a criminal and terrorist attack by the American-Zionist enemy in the Third Imposed War, at dawn today,” the Guards said in a statement carried by the semi-official Fars news agency. The Guards' intelligence organization, or SASP, was expanded from a military counterintelligence department into a powerful intelligence apparatus in October 2009 at the orders of Iran's previous supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following the 2009 Green Movement against the regime. It steadily grew in strength and reach and as a rival to the Islamic Republic’s intelligence ministry VAJA, which was nominally under the president’s control and answerable to the parliament, a hindrance that did not apply to the SASP head who was directly appointed by the supreme leader, and accountable only to him. In time it became the primary intelligence apparatus of the state, and its instrument of choice in clamping down on dissidents and critics of the regime. Khademi had replaced the previous head, Mohammad Kazemi, who had been killed by Israeli airstrikes on 15 June, 2025, when Israel and the United States attacked Iran in what came to be known as the 12-day war. However, it’s not clear how effective the killing of the organization’s chief will be in weakening the state’s capacity for coercion and persecution. “As we saw before, the death of the Guards’ chief of intelligence had no meaningful effect on their ability to clamp down on protests. Only a few short months later they were able to violently suppress the millions who took to the streets in January,” an analyst inside Iran told Time. “The Guards have created a multi-tiered command structure in all of its departments and organizations, so that should one commander be killed, he is immediately replaced by a subordinate ready to carry on,” he added. ## Petrochemical plants and universities targeted in strikes The strike on the guards’ intelligence chief was not the only strike of the night. Iran’s ministry of health reported that seven children under the age of 10 were killed in the strikes throughout the country, with the youngest less than 12 months old. The 92 million-strong nation’s most prestigious engineering school, the Sharif University of Technology, was also hit by airstrikes that damaged some of its most advanced faculties. “The High-Performance Computing faculty and the Information and Communication Technology Centre were destroyed. That means the thesis and research of hundreds of students, including some of the country’s brightest minds went up in smoke,” said an engineering professor in a Tehran university, who like others interviewed by Time requested not to be named out of fear of retribution. Industrial targets were likewise heavily hit, with petrochemical plants in the world’s largest gas field, the South Pars Gas Field at Asalouyeh, taking the brunt. “Mobin and Damavand utility plants, which provided the necessary water, electricity and oxygen for Asalouyeh’s petrochemical plants were struck,” the semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported, adding that there will not be any electricity for the region’s multiple petrochemical plants until the utility plants are repaired. Local media also reported that the Marvdasht industrial estate near Shiraz was also targeted, with the electricity utility plant of the Marvdasht Petrochemical Plant being hit according to a communique issued by the Marvdasht governorate. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/article/2026/04/06/iran-rejects-ceasefire-as-trump-deadline-looms-and-strikes-escalate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/article/2026/04/06/iran-rejects-ceasefire-as-trump-deadline-looms-and-strikes-escalate/"},"headline":"'Every Bridge in Iran Will Be Decimated': Trump Renews Latest Threat as Iran Rejects Ceasefire Offer","datePublished":"2026-04-06T16:38:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-06T20:02:45.000Z","description":"Iran rejects ceasefire as Trump deadline nears and Israel says strikes killed IRGC intelligence chief.","url":"https://time.com/article/2026/04/06/iran-rejects-ceasefire-as-trump-deadline-looms-and-strikes-escalate/","keywords":["Iran","Israel","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbaeab3dae674381b/69d3e4ec6310297d0073c12a/GettyImages-2268535801.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kay Armin Serjoie","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/kay-armin-serjoie/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Brian Bennett","jobTitle":"Bennett is the senior White House correspondent at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbaeab3dae674381b/69d3e4ec6310297d0073c12a/GettyImages-2268535801.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"GettyImages-2268535801.jpg","caption":"","creditText":"Majid Saeedi/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/iran/","name":"Iran"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/article/2026/04/06/iran-rejects-ceasefire-as-trump-deadline-looms-and-strikes-escalate/","name":"'Every Bridge in Iran Will Be Decimated': Trump Renews Latest Threat as Iran Rejects Ceasefire Offer"}}]}] ```