India, March 30 -- US President Donald Trump on Monday issued a stark warning to Iran, threatening to destroy key infrastructure, including power plants and oil facilities, if a deal between Washington and Tehran is not reached soon.

In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said the United States was engaged in "serious discussions" with what he described as a "new, and more reasonable, regime" in Iran to end ongoing military operations.

"If a deal is not shortly reached, and if the Strait of Hormuz is not immediately open for business, we will conclude our stay in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their electric generating plants, oil wells and Kharg Island," Trump wrote, adding that desalination f...