As Trump’s own deadline on Iran approached, Mahdi Mohammadi, a senior advisor to Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, turned the tables with a public warning. In a viral post, he declared that it is Trump who now has “about 20 hours” to surrender to Iran’s terms – or else U.S. allies across the region will suffer consequences. As Iran flipped the scrip, reports in Washington suggested the Pentagon abruptly canceled a high‑profile briefing that was supposed to feature War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Caine just hours before Trump’s Iran deadline expired. Watch the video for more.
