00:02Rescuers search for survivors in remnants of a building turned to rubble by U.S. Israeli strikes.
00:08This destruction in Qom Province, south of Iran's capital Tehran, marks another grisly day in a war that could escalate
00:15sharply in just hours.
00:17Iran has rejected a U.S. peace proposal to end six weeks of war, saying it has a ten-point
00:23counteroffer, including reconstruction and the lifting of international sanctions.
00:28But U.S. President Donald Trump says that's not good enough.
00:31He says his ultimatum to Iran, reach a deal Tuesday or face sweeping destruction, holds.
00:37And he says he isn't concerned that some legal experts see his plans targeting of Iran's civil infrastructure, power and
00:44water desalination plants, as a war crime.
00:47We have a plan, because of the power of our military, where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by
00:5712 o'clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never
01:06to be used again.
01:07But Iran's leadership says it's unfazed. As a spokesperson for the Iranian military's operational command center put it,
01:17The rude rhetoric, arrogance and baseless threats of the delusional U.S. president, arising from the deadlock he faces and
01:23aimed at justifying the repeated defeats of the U.S. military,
01:26will have no effect on the continuation of offensive and crushing operations by the fighters of Islam against U.S.
01:33and Israeli enemies,
01:34and will not repair the humiliation of the United States in West Asia.
01:38There is still one possible way out.
01:41Mediators have drafted a proposal for a 45-day ceasefire which would also end in Iranian blockade of the Strait
01:47of Hormuz, a choke point for oil and gas shipping.
01:50This would give time for talks and ease economic pain that's hit the whole world since the war started.
01:56But neither Tehran nor Washington have responded.
01:59As the fighting threatens to expand, countries staying out of the fight are trying to secure their own interests.
02:06The U.K. is hosting a military meeting Tuesday to secure passage through the Strait once the war ends,
02:11and more than 40 countries plan to take part.
02:16And Japan is trying to lower tensions ahead of Trump's ultimatum.
02:19It gets more than 90 percent of its oil through the Strait,
02:23and Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae says she's looking to talk with Iran's president and Trump.
02:28With both countries in deadlock, and Trump appearing keen to carry out his threat,
02:33the global impacts of the war may stretch on.
02:36Leon Lian and John Van Trieste for Taiwan Plus.
02:39Leon Lian and Eric
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