President Trump isn’t negotiating with Iran anymore. He’s issuing terms.
By Saturday, Tehran must publicly acknowledge that every channel in the Strait of Hormuz is open, toll-free, and that its forces will stop firing on commercial vessels. The demand was delivered directly to Iran and through regional mediators, and American officials made the consequences of non-compliance crystal clear: if Iran doesn’t deliver that public statement by Saturday, one official told Axios, “it is not gonna be a great day for them.”
That’s not diplomatic language. That’s a warning. And coming from an administration that just put Iran’s nuclear program in
