Trump Just Gave Iran a Hard Deadline: Admit the Strait Is Open or It Won’t Be a Great Day for Them

unambiguous: a regime that can’t honor a commitment as basic as not shooting at cargo ships cannot be trusted to honor a nuclear agreement. They want Iran to say out loud, publicly, that they made a mistake.

Iran won’t say it. At least not yet.

Tehran’s account of how this situation developed conveniently omits any acknowledgment of responsibility. Iranian officials publicly insist they’ve met all their obligations. Their UN ambassador went further, claiming Iran alone decides what happens in the strait — a position directly at odds with its status as an international waterway that has operated under freedom of navigation principles for decades. Iran’s top nuclear