Trump Humiliated In Hormuz AGAIN; Iran’s Naval Superiority DOMINATES

Trump bombed Iran to force surrender, then discovered Iran still controlled the way out. Israel is reaping what it has sown. Right, so Donald Trump has bombed Iran again while his own side is telling everyone a deal could be just days away, because apparently nothing says peace like another set of explosions over the country you are supposedly negotiating with. Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, has been saying the Strait of Hormuz has to be opened one way or another, which is a very American way of describing a waterway that is not actually in America, not owned by America, and not sitting there waiting for a man in Washington to shout at it. CENTCOM, the US military command running American operations across the Middle East and Central Asia, has acknowledged strikes in southern Iran, saying American forces hit missile launch sites and Iranian boats it claimed were trying to lay mines near the Strait. The reported blast areas were around Bandar Abbas, Sirik and Jask, right next to the pressure point Trump desperately needs reopened. So Trump is selling peace, Rubio is selling progress, CENTCOM is selling self-defence, and Iran is looking at the smoke and saying the Americans have just violated the ceasefire again. The Iranian Foreign Ministry has called the latest US action a ceasefire violation and a sign of bad faith, and that is not a small claim, because these strikes aren't happening in some dead space outside the diplomatic process. Pakistan has been mediating between Washington and Tehran, Iranian officials have been in Qatar, the discussions have been circling Hormuz, blockade relief, frozen assets and how the war ends, and then the US military has decided to add fresh bombing to the timetable. That isn't strength. That is a man trying to look in control while using the one tool that keeps proving it cannot buy him the thing he needs. US officials can call the strikes defensive until the aircraft run out of fuel, but Iran is not answering like a state that has been beaten into obedience.