President Donald Trump is reportedly considering extending his deadline for Iran by another “three to five days,” Axios’ Barak Ravid claimed on Wednesday, citing an unnamed source who shared the news in a curse-laden message.
"Trump is willing to give another three to five days of ceasefire to allow the Iranians to get their s--- together," a “U.S. source briefed on the matter” told Ravid, he claimed in a social media post on X. “It is not going to be open-ended."
Trump has issued Tehran several deadlines throughout the duration of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, deadlines that he’s extended several times for various reasons, most of which have been sharply refuted by Iranian officials.
The latest two-week ceasefire tentatively agreed to by Washington and Tehran was set to expire on Wednesday, but Trump announced Tuesday that he would be extending the ceasefire "until such a time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal” for an agreement to end the conflict.
His reasoning for the aforementioned extension, Trump claimed, was that Iran’s government was “seriously fractured,” another claim that Iran immediately disputed, alleging it to be a “false claim” and a “desperate attempt to save face.”
According to Ravid, Trump now appears poised to give Tehran three to five more days to offer a proposal to end the conflict before hostilities between the United States and Iran would resume.
"Trump is willing to give another three to five days of ceasefire to allow the Iranians to get their shit together," one U.S. source briefed on the matter told me. "It is not going to be open-ended" https://t.co/aQogWCkO3m
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) April 22, 2026
