Welcome to the News Hour. President Trump is backing off for now his threat to destroy Iran's civilian infrastructure and wipe out its civilization.

In a social media post, he said he has agreed to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for two weeks, calling it a double-sided ceasefire.

That's if Iran immediately reopens the strait of war moves.

And the president

added that the U.S. received a broad proposal from Iran that is, quote, a workable basis on which

to negotiate. Nick Schiffran starts our coverage. Today, after rockets reigned onto Tehran,

and the U.S. and Israeli strikes smashed buildings

in the carcasses, President Trump provided a reprieve, accepting Pakistani Prime Minister

Shabaz Sharif's proposal for the president to delay his ultimatum by two weeks and for

Iran to lift its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz also for two weeks.

This morning, President Trump's ultimatum was his most severe yet.

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.

I don't want that to happen, but it probably will, calling tonight's original deadline one

of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world.

Every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o'clock tomorrow night.

Yesterday, President Trump said if Iran didn't reopen the strait and make a deal, he would

launch a four-hour bombing mission beginning tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, dramatically expanding last week's strike

on a bridge that a U.S. official says it was a planned Iranian resupply route.

Military officials told PBS NewsHour if the president ordered the new campaign, they would

target bridges and power plants that have connections to the Iranian military.

There are still some things that we'd like to do, for example, on Iranian ability to manufacture

weapons that we'd like to do a little bit more work on militarily.

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