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Trump Tells Aides to Plan a Long Hormuz Blockade After Rejecting the Pakistan Offer

A U.S. carrier strike group at dusk in the Gulf of Oman with a stationary tanker silhouetted in the middle distance.
TL;DR

The Pakistan-relayed Iranian offer is dead, the planning is for an extended blockade, and the policy is now rejection itself.

MSM Perspective

WSJ broke the tasking; Reuters and Bloomberg framed it as the least risky of three bad options.

X Perspective

Trump's own backers are reading WSJ as proof he picked the slow squeeze over either bombing or a deal.

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