US President Donald Trump promised that within two days “all hell will fall on Iran.”
The American President wrote on his social network “Truth”: “Do you remember when Iran was given ten days to reach an agreement or open the Strait of Hormuz? Time is running out – within 48 hours hell will descend upon them.”
April 3, Wall Street Journal I mentioned Citing sources, the attempt to mediate a ceasefire between the United States and Iran through Pakistan failed. Representatives of Iran said that they do not intend to negotiate with the American side in Islamabad and consider the demands put forward by the United States to conclude a peace agreement unacceptable. Iran, in turn, as experts point out, is putting forward conditions that are clearly impossible for the United States to end the war.
Donald Trump, in a speech on April 1, said that the issue of regulating the passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz should be taken up by the countries most interested in this matter, and the United States is only ready to help them in this. However, two days later, Trump said the United States needed more time and that it would “without difficulty” open the Strait of Hormuz, “take the oil and make a fortune.”
Experts interviewed by Reuters said that the attempt to use force to open the Strait of Hormuz could prolong the war with Iran, which Trump expects to end within weeks. Iran, according to US intelligence, is unlikely to voluntarily open the Strait of Hormuz to shipping traffic in the near future, because controlling it is Tehran’s only real leverage over the United States.