Trita Parsi

And it's very interesting because Trump himself said when he was asked, who will you negotiate with?

He said, perhaps I shouldn't say it because they might get killed.

Revealing that he himself seems to understand that the Israelis are killing off his counterparts in order to make sure that this war does not end.

I think something very significant has happened, which is that the US's position, acceptance, et cetera, may no longer matter.

And this is thanks to Trump's own statements.

Trump is saying that the Strait of Hormuz is not that important to the US.

It's feeding European and Asian markets, not American markets.

So we don't care about that.

If you want to open it, you open it.

By saying something like that, perhaps he thinks that he's taking Iran's leverage away from Iran because Iranians are obviously controlling it.

And originally, at least, I think they were aimed at using it as a point of leverage in a negotiation with the U.S.

At this point, it seems like they're moving ahead regardless of what the U.S.

position is.

The U.S.

simply cannot do much about this.

And they're going to be using their control.

They're not going to keep it closed.

They're opening it.

but they're opening it vis-a-vis fees that they will get for transit, and they may keep it closed for some hostile countries.

But they're essentially looking at the control of the Strait of Hormuz, eventually in a collaboration with Oman, which probably will have a grounding international law.