President Donald Trump announced Sunday that “effective immediately,” he instructed the U.S. Navy to conduct its own blockade near the Strait of Hormuz after Iranians refused to agree to Washington’s hardline demands during negotiations in Islamabad on Saturday.
Pete Hegseth, the secretary of War, told reporters a day after the temporary ceasefire between Iran and Washington was announced that it was the Iranians who begged the U.S. to stop the war.
Yair Lapid, the Israeli opposition leader, called out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week for going along with President Donald Trump’s ceasefire announcement with Iran, calling the move a historic “political disaster” for Israel because the war did not achieve any goals.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled the stops in February during a meeting at the White House to convince President Donald Trump to go to war with Iran, The New York Times reported.
U.S. fossil fuel executives who backed Donald Trump for president in 2024 are seeing the fruits of their political investment with the Iran War sending oil prices skyrocketing, with no end in sight.
President Donald Trump’s decision to order a naval blockade outside the Strait of Hormuz to block cargo ships that pay Iranians to exit the vital waterway runs the risk of a major escalation, even as the 15-day ceasefire was still technically in place after the failed negotiations over the weekend.
Top defense contractors in the United States are feeling like it’s Christmas all over again, with the Iran War showing no signs of a permanent solution, and the Ukraine War also with no end in sight.
Top Iranians said last week that they were not optimistic about upcoming ceasefire negotiations with the U.S. in Islamabad because of Israel’s ongoing attacks on Lebanon under the auspices of destroying Hezbollah in the country.
The Trump administration agreed with a draft ceasefire agreement with Iran last week that included Lebanon in the deal, Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan, said in his announcement of the agreement.
President Donald Trump on Friday warned Iran that it needs to agree to the ceasefire because he has ordered the military to restock ships in the region with the most sophisticated weapons after the temporary deal announced earlier in the week.