This is CNN Breaking News.

Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Taffer, and we're going to begin with breaking news on our world lead.

We're now only three hours away from President Donald Trump's deadline for Iran to make a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The president just told Fox that the United States is in heated negotiations over the Iran

war and ending it.

This after a last minute proposal from Pakistan, the White House says, requesting to extend

tonight's deadline by two weeks.

If the current deadline holds, if no deal is made, here is what the president said this morning

will happen tonight. Quote, the whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.

I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. We will find out tonight, one of the most important

moments in the long and

complex history of the world. Forty-seven years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end,

unquote. Now, just looking at this statement factually, out of all of Donald Trump's threats,

of which there have been many, this may be the most outrageous and disturbing of them all ever.

A civilization dying, he says, meaning he will give the order to kill that civilization,

which is comprised of 93 million Iranians.

Such an order, if enacted, would constitute the most heinous of war crimes. It would

be a mass murder. It would be a genocide, the likes of which the world has never seen.

Now, if you find yourself out there saying, okay, but Donald Trump isn't really actually

going to wipe out a civilization, He's just negotiating, unquote.

Stop for a second and listen to yourself.

We have a president of the United States

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