This development could further deepen Trump’s crisis after he announced late Saturday into Sunday the cancellation of the strongest attacks the United States was preparing to launch since World War II, based on what he described as requests from Iran itself and Gulf leaders. When journalists pressed him to explain Iran’s denial of negotiations with the United States, Trump responded that “Iranians are deceitful because they negotiate and deny it at the same time.” He went further by setting Tuesday as the date for reopening the strait, affirming that the United States, not Iran, controls it, and saying that he wanted to give Iran “a last chance before I destroy them.”
