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Hello, this is Dylan Butts writing to you from Singapore. Welcome to another edition of CNBC’s Daily Open.
We’re now entering the sixth week of the Iran war, and it appears that U.S. President Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with the fallout of the conflict.
In an expletives-laden social media post on Sunday that drew a sharp backlash from opposition leaders and civil society groups, Trump vowed to strike Iran’s power plants and bridges if the Strait of Hormuz was not opened to all marine traffic by Tuesday.
Trump’s aggressive social media post comes as his deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz was set to end Monday, after he extended it by 10 days last month.
