Many critics seized on the MOU as proof of U.S. weakness. Iran’s conduct since then suggests the opposite. Tehran needed fast access to funds, and Washington was cornering it further while steadying energy markets.

IRGC needs cash, that’s what it wanted from the MOU, and they correctly understood that they’re not going to get any of it, that 60 days of negotiations that can be renewed infinitely with no guarantees and with sanctions in place was not granting them any sort of chance of repositioning themselves and good luck releasing “frozen funds” from countries they’ve just hit. Strait of Hormuz is the only card they have left and they’re also exhausting it. They are not in a good place.

https://x.com/zriboua/status/2076374270695895092

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The United States will take control of the Strait of Hormuz and should be compensated for securing the strategic waterway, President Donald Trump said on Monday.

“We’re going to keep the strait, and we’ll probably run it. We’ll become the guardian of the strait. Maybe we’ll call it the guardian angel of the strait. And we should be reimbursed for that,” Trump said in a phone interview on Fox News’ Fox & Friends.

https://x.com/IranIntl_En/status/2076647672358772980

SO IT’S A STRAIT FLUSH ?