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It’s Tuesday, April 28, and Iran is beginning to crack. Vindicating Donald Trump’s weekend claim that Iranian officials could “come to us, or they can call us,” Iran has reportedly presented a new proposal, offering to “reopen” the Strait of Hormuz and end the current hostilities, provided that U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations are postponed to a later date.
Trump responded that while this offer is “much better” than previous proposals—which demanded Iranian sovereignty over the strait—it remains “not enough.” It goes without saying why surrendering Washington’s primary point of leverage over the regime before securing ironclad guarantees on the nuclear issue is a nonstarter.
