US President Donald Trump once again pushed Iran to make a deal by his Tuesday deadline, saying a “whole civilization will die tonight” if an agreement is not reached to end the conflict, in a move that stopped direct communications between the two warring nations. 

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?” said Trump.

“We will find out tonight,” Trump added, “one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World.”

Trump has set a deadline of 8 p.m. EST Tuesday night for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, threatening to rain “hell” on Tehran if no deal is reached.

Later on Tuesday, Iran officially cut off all direct communications with the US over Trump’s threat, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Middle Eastern officials.

The officials noted that while the move complicated efforts to make a deal by the Tuesday deadline, it has not ended talks.

One of the officials who spoke to the WSJ said that Iran cut off the US in order to signal its disapproval and defiance.

It is currently unclear if the nations will resume direct talks before the deadline.

US Vice President JD Vance stated before the Iranian announcement that the US “feels confident” that the US can secure a deal by Trump’s deadline, adding, “The United States has largely accomplished its military objectives in Iran.”

“We were going to strike some military targets on Kharg Island, and I believe we have done so,” said Vance.

“We’re not going to strike energy and infrastructure targets until the Iranians either make a proposal that we can get behind or don’t make a proposal,” he added. “I don’t think the news in Kharg Island… represents a change in strategy, or represents any change from the President of the United States.”

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday requested Trump make a two-week extension to the deadline he imposed on Iran to end its blockade of Gulf oil.

Pakistan has been the main go-between for proposals shared by Iran and the United States, but there has been no sign of a compromise.

“To allow diplomacy to run its course, I earnestly request President Trump to extend the deadline for two weeks. Pakistan, in all sincerity, requests the Iranian brothers to open Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture,” Sharif said in a post on X.

The IDF targeted several railways and bridges across Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, describing the operation as an effort to cripple the regime’s capacity to move its missile launchers to prevent identification by Israeli and US forces.

‘Today, they [the IDF] attacked the train tracks and bridges used by the Revolutionary Guards,” said Netanyahu. “They use these to transport raw materials for weapons, the weapons themselves, and the operatives who attack us, the US, and the countries of the region, the same operatives who also oppress the Iranian people.”

Among the targets were railways in Karaj and Qazvin, as well as bridges in Kashan and Tabriz-Zanjan, according to a Reuters report.

According to Army Radio, a total of 10 bridges and railways were targeted during the strikes, with the objective of diminishing Iran’s weapon transfer capabilities and damaging Iran’s economy.

UN Secretary General António Guterres wrote on X/Twitter late on Tuesday that no military objective justifies the “wholesale destruction of a society’s infrastructure or the deliberate infliction of suffering on civilian populations.”

The post is likely a response to Trump’s earlier claims of renewed US strikes on Iran in the case of rejection of a ceasefire proposal by Tehran.