New Delhi, April 8 -- Foreign Affairs Expert Robinder Sachdev on Wednesday said that US President Donald Trump's warning on Iran that its entire civilisation "will die" if a deal was not made raised the stakes for the US President to take severe steps against the Islamic Regime, which pressured him to take a step back and lead to the ceasefire deal.

Sachdev, in a conversation with ANI, said that Trump's rhetoric was opposed by his own Republican party.

"This ceasefire is absolutely welcome, especially since it arrived just one hour before the deadline for a potential attack on Iran. The world was sliding toward chaos, and tensions nearly reached a breaking point when President Trump threatened that an entire civilisation would die. That...