This is The Guardian.

It was like Grandhog Day, but the Grandhog just keeps getting bigger and uglier because he's doubled down or tripled down on this.

The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night.

The real concern is about we don't know the mental state of this president and what he will do.

Targeting an entire country of 93 million people, all their life support,

that would almost certainly be a war crime.

Donald Trump warns that an entire civilization will die tonight if Iran doesn't agree to a deal to end the conflict.

But how seriously can we take these claims?

From The Guardians today and Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

Well, joining me is Julian Borgia, senior international correspondent at The Guardian.

Julian, it's great to have you back with us. It does feel a bit like groundhog day at the moment.

But we've had sort of attempts at diplomacy to bring the Iran war to an end over the weekend, haven't we?

And specifically reopening the Strait of Hamoos.

But Donald Trump seems to have very much his own agenda.

He's extended his ultimatum to tonight.

If not, he's threatening to decimate Iran by targeting Bridges' power plants.

Tell me about what he's been threatening and why.

Yeah, it was quite the wild weekend on Sunday.

We had this truth, social post from Trump,

which was one of the most extraordinary misses from any president in history.

It was an expletive laden.

It was telling Iran open the effing homestrate,

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