Trump takes Iran hard line as Hormuz tensions mark new normal

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Aug 19

US President Donald Trump and his officials have pledged to ratchet up economic pressure on Iran to force it to capitulate, but it's unclear what measures are under consideration. (Aug 19): US ...

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There are no plans to extend it.\n\"There are no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran,\" Trump posted on his social media platform.\nThat leaves the status of the Strait of Hormuz in doubt, with both the US and Iran at odds about how it should be managed, little traffic flowing through the critical waterway in the meantime and no sign of any imminent resolution. \nThe United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday said it was cutting off trade, commercial exchanges and financial transactions with Iran until further notice \"in light of regional escalations that undermine regional and international peace and security.\"\nThe move came after the UAE said Iran fired two ballistic missiles into its territory, the Islamic Republic's first confirmed attack on the Gulf nation since May. Both missiles were targeting maritime traffic, but fell into the sea and only one reached UAE's waters, according to the country's Defense Ministry. Tehran had recently launched strikes against UAE-linked ships. Esmail Baghaei, a spokesperson for Iran's Foreign Ministry, denied that Iran launched a missile toward the UAE. \nBrent crude was above US$91 ($116) a barrel on Tuesday as prospects dimmed for a swift reopening of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil and gas transited before the war. \nTraffic through Hormuz remains well below pre-war levels amid repeated attacks on ships. The UK said on Tuesday that a vessel leaving the strait was hit by a projectile that damaged its engine room and caused one casualty. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed freedom of navigation with the UAE's national security adviser.\nMohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran's lead negotiator with the US, told lawmakers on Tuesday Hormuz won't reopen before the US lifts a port blockade, releases frozen assets, removes oil sanctions and ceases all its military operations - as it agreed to do in June.\nTrump, meanwhile, is demanding Iran drop efforts to toll vessels crossing the waterway, while Tehran has said it will govern traffic in conjunction with Oman. The US president, citing the naval blockade of Iranian ports, claimed that the strait is \"open and operating\" despite shipping data showing otherwise.\nThe president also asserted that \"all water mines have been removed or detonated\", a claim that European officials said they are skeptical of due to the painstaking and time-consuming nature of the mine-clearing process. A planned European mission has yet to get underway.\nTuesday's declarations from the president marked the latest example of the mixed messages coming from the administration about the state of the war. \nThe president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who has been active in diplomatic efforts, told Fox News on Tuesday that conversations with \"different areas of the Iranian government\" were ongoing. \n\"There's really not a lot of trust between America and Iran after all these years of not having these relations and dialogues,\" he said. \"But we are having very positive and active conversations.\"\nAccording to the president, those are now over. Yet there's little sign Iran is willing to bend.\n\"The regime is willing to endure great hardship, they are willing to inflict great hardship on the population, in order to stay in power,\" Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Bloomberg Television. \"We are in what I call an economic war of attrition to see who can endure longer, to see who can force the other side to make concessions.\" \nThe war erupted on Feb 28, when the US and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran and sparked parallel conflicts that have embroiled much of the Middle East. Trump has repeatedly said his primary objective is to prevent the Islamic Republic from obtaining a nuclear weapon, which the nation's officials deny pursuing.\nTrump on Monday said the US retains leverage over Iran and reiterated his idea of declaring Hormuz an American territory. His insistence that the US has total control over the strait is directly at odds with the stance of Iranian officials.\nIran and Oman are negotiating a deal on how Hormuz should be managed, but the US isn't part of those discussions. In a phone interview with Fox News, Trump warned that if \"Oman gets in the way we'll bomb the s-- out of them,\" without giving any further details, repeating a similar threat he made in May. Oman isn't a formal US military ally, but has served as a close security partner. \nTrump has struggled to find an off-ramp to a war that's driven up gasoline prices and grown increasingly unpopular in the US, threatening to erode support for Republicans in November's midterm elections by keeping the war in voters' minds. \nTrump and his officials have pledged to ratchet up economic pressure on Iran to force it to capitulate, but it's unclear what measures are under consideration. The Islamic Republic has withstood decades of sanctions. \nThe war has damaged much of Iran's industrial capacity, severely curtailed its crude exports and sent inflation skyrocketing. Ghalibaf acknowledged that Iranian citizens had legitimate economic grievances, but said they should prioritise maintaining national unity. \nJake Sullivan, who served as national security adviser under former US president Joe Biden, said Trump only has two bad options on the table. \nOne is to keep the war going, with all the economic costs that entails. \"And the other is to cut a very, very bad deal,\" he said on Tuesday on Bloomberg Television.\n\"And really Iran is just simply upping the price for that deal with each week that goes by,\" Sullivan said, \"adding new demands to what it would require to open the Strait of Hormuz.\"\nUploaded by Tham Yek Lee","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":false,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"isVideo":false,"video":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"need_login_tip":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"}}}