US President Donald Trump has told his aides that he is willing to end war without re-opening the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has refused to unblock despite repeated warnings from the US president. This is another soft stance taken on Tehran as the latter has refused to budge after US-Israel initiated war.
In recent days, Trump and his aides concluded that an operation to reopen the strategic chokepoint would likely extend the conflict beyond his preferred four-to-six-week timeline, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
