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Trump Told Aides He’s Willing To End War Without Reopening Hormuz; Report The Wall Street Journal is reporting that President Trump told aides he’s willing to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed, administration officials said, likely extending Tehran’s firm grip on the waterway and leaving a complex operation to reopen it for a later date. In recent days, Trump and his aides assessed that a mission to pry open the chokepoint would push the conflict beyond his timeline of four to six weeks. He decided that the U.S. should achieve its main goals of hobbling Iran’s navy and its missile stocks and wind down current hostilities while pressuring Tehran diplomatically to resume the free flow of trade. If that fails, Washington would press allies in Europe and the Gulf to take the lead on reopening the strait, the officials said. The longer the strait remains closed, the more it will roil the global economy and boost gas prices. Oil is falling significantly on the news, erasing all of its earlier gains on the news… Iran Strikes Fully-Laden Kuwaiti Crude Carrier After two weeks of ‘calm’, the Kuwaiti crude carrier Al-Salmi was […]
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