deadline

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"Financial markets are oscillating in a narrow, uneasy range as traders sized up the countdown to Donald Trump's Iran deadline," wrote Stephen Innes at SPI Asset Management.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

The final deadline is coming up Tuesday at 8 p.m.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

The next day, Trump updates the deadline: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

President Trump held a news conference today, one day before his new Tuesday deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

I tell her about the deadline of only ten days, and she looks like she might cry.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett