Trump Tells Iran to 'Just Give Up' as War Powers 60-Day Deadline Looms — CENTCOM Briefed on Strike Options

President Trump on April 30, 2026 — Day 62 of the conflict — urged Tehran to 'just give up,' telling Axios in an interview that Iran 'can't have a nuclear weapon' and must capitulate to US demands. The statement coincided with the looming War Powers Resolution 60-day deadline (expiring May 1), after which Congress would need to authorize the conflict's continuation or Trump would need to certify 'unavoidable military necessity' for a 30-day extension. Four Senate bids to curb Trump's war authority have failed; Democrats are exploring a lawsuit. CNN and Jerusalem Post reported that Trump was scheduled to be briefed by CENTCOM on fresh military options for renewed strikes against Iran as talks remained stalled — a signal that Washington was using military threat as coercive leverage to force Iranian concessions before the legal deadline. The diplomatic stalemate continued on Day 62 with Iran's revised Hormuz proposal expected to be submitted to Pakistan mediators by May 1, but Trump publicly rejecting the Hormuz-first sequencing that Iran insists upon. Al Jazeera published an analysis asking whether the US-Iran war was heading toward a 'frozen conflict' — a prolonged stalemate rather than a decisive resolution.