Donald Trump has once again threatened this Sunday to unleash “hell” in Iran if the country does not open the Strait of Hormuz before 8:00 p.m. this Monday in Washington (00:00 GMT on Tuesday). “Open the damn strait, you damn fools, or you’ll live in hell. You’ll see!” he wrote in Truth Social, while threatening to attack Iran’s electrical infrastructure if there is no agreement by then.
Along with these statements, the Republican assured shortly afterwards in an interview with the Fox News network that he sees himself capable of reaching an agreement with Tehran in time, although if this is not the case, he considers “blowing everything up” and seizing Iranian oil.
Open the damn strait or you will live in hell
Thus, as the deadline approaches, the unknowns become greater, especially considering that the US president appears to have extended the end of the ultimatum until Tuesday. “If they don’t do something by Tuesday night, they won’t have any power plants and they won’t have any bridges left standing,” he said in a telephone interview with The Wall Street Journal.
In an interview with the Axios portal, the White House tenant highlighted that a few days ago Iran and the United States were close to closing an agreement to hold direct negotiations. “When they told us they would meet us in five days, I asked them, ‘Why five days?’ It didn’t seem to me that they were being serious, so I attacked the bridge,” he explained, referring to the bombing of the B1 bridge in Karaj, on the outskirts of Tehran, in which 13 people died.
Call to dialogue
Meanwhile, calls for dialogue and de-escalation of the conflict continue to be proposed throughout the globe. From Egypt, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has asked Iran to “act sensibly” and “prioritize dialogue” before the deadline to close an agreement that guarantees the normalization of transit through Hormuz ends in the next few hours.
Oman, another of the main mediators between Washington and Tehran, has had conversations with Iranian representatives to “analyze options” to guarantee the opening of Hormuz, given the intensification of the threats from the US president.
Iran has also spoken out in this regard, which has claimed to have launched several attacks against energy infrastructure in Israel and facilities linked to the United States in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait, in response to recent bombings against Iranian infrastructure.
