Various sources report Vice President JD Vance went to Islamabad, Pakistan, to negotiate with Iran. He spent 21 hours doing so, and discovered they would not agree to stop pursuing nuclear weapons. He then left, saying Iran was not ready to meet US minimum demands.
Now President Trump reports the Navy will blockade all traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off a main source of revenue for Iran. The supposed two week ceasefire is either off or sort-of-on, if the bombing of power generation and desalination plants begins, we know the answer is “off.”
Twelve hours later ... Correction ... We are blockading all Iranian ports, not the Strait of Hormuz. So oil can flow, just not from Iran. Iran's facilities to ship oil remain undamaged, but unusable while we block their ports. Inability to raise foreign exchange may bring the government to heel and cause regime change.
