Call it the hornet’s nest of Hormuz. Since Iran shut the strait at the start of March, there have been so many contradictory announcements that no one knew whether trying to pass the crucial thoroughfare was shrewd or foolhardy. But now there’s a peace deal, one that U.S. President Donald Trump said on Truth Social would “fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and, simultaneously herewith, authorize the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade.”
The moment that everyone had been waiting for has arrived. “Ships of the World, start your engines,” Trump wrote in the same post. Starting a ship’s engine is, alas, the easiest part (and the engines have been on all along). The question now is how to get all the trapped ships out of the Persian Gulf in a safe and orderly fashion—and what happens if some don’t make it out.
Call it the hornet’s nest of Hormuz. Since Iran shut the strait at the start of March, there have been so many contradictory announcements that no one knew whether trying to pass the crucial thoroughfare was shrewd or foolhardy. But now there’s a peace deal, one that U.S. President Donald Trump said on Truth Social would “fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz, and, simultaneously herewith, authorize the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade.”
