Trump Tells Aides to Plan a Long Hormuz Blockade After Rejecting the Pakistan Offer
The Pakistan-relayed Iranian offer is dead, the planning is for an extended blockade, and the policy is now rejection itself.
WSJ broke the tasking; Reuters and Bloomberg framed it as the least risky of three bad options.
Trump's own backers are reading WSJ as proof he picked the slow squeeze over either bombing or a deal.