Trump says we're 'blowing up the whole country' if Iran doesn't make deal in 48 hours

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps has issued a warning to American companies in the Middle East, saying they are "considered legitimate targets."

The companies named by the IRGC include Cisco, HP, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, IBM, Dell, Planter, Nvidia, J.P. Morgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solutions, G42 and Boeing.

"The IRGC warns the ruling regime of aggressive America: You ignored our repeated warnings about the necessity to stop terrorist operations, and today, in your terrorist attacks and those of your Israeli allies, several Iranian citizens were martyred," the IRGC said in a statement in Farsi.

"Since the main element in designing and tracking assassination targets are American ICT and AI companies, in response to this terrorist operation, from now on the main institutions involved in terrorist operations will be considered legitimate targets," the IRGC said.

President Donald Trump said he believes the Strait of Hormuz will “automatically open” when the U.S. exits, he said in a phone interview with the New York Post on Tuesday.

“We’re not going to be there too much longer. We’re obliterating the s--- out of them right now, it’s a total obliteration,” he told the Post.

Asked about the Wall Street Journal report that indicated he was considering ending the war without opening the Strait of Hormuz, Trump sidestepped but argued that the Strait will “automatically open” when the U.S. leaves Iran.

“I don’t think about it, to be honest,” Trump said, according to the NY Post. “My sole function was to make sure that they don’t have a nuclear weapon. They’re not going to have a nuclear weapon. When we leave the strait will automatically open.”

Trump continued to shrug off responsibility to other countries to open the Strait.

“Well, I think it’ll automatically open, but my attitude is, I’ve obliterated the country. They have no strength left, and let the countries that are using the strait, let them go and open it… because I would imagine whoever’s controlling the oil will be very happy to open the strait," he said.

His remarks come despite his threats on Monday to bomb power plants, oil wells, Kharg Island and possibly, all of the country’s desalinization plants if the Strait of Hormuz did not “immediately” open.

“If for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately 'Open for Business,' we will conclude our lovely 'stay' in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!)" Trump wrote on social media.

Pakistan and China released a five-point peace proposal to end the war with Iran aimed at "restoring peace and stability in the Gulf and Middle East," Pakistan's Foreign Ministry released in post on X.

The plan includes a call for an immediate ceasefire, starting peace talks immediately and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

The initiative come hours after Pakistani Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar arrived in Beijing and met with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday.

-ABC News' Othon Leyva Jr.

The Israel Defense Forces issued a second warning to Beirut residents living in another neighborhood in southern Beirut. This comes hours after ordering another neighborhood to evacuate before strikes began.

The IDF said it is targeting Hezbollah there.

At least 1,268 people have been killed and 3,750 have been injured in Lebanon since Israeli strikes began on March 2, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.