President Donald Trump warned on June 17 that he would restart military strikes against Iran if a deal isn’t finalized within 60 days. The threat injects fresh instability into a conflict that has now stretched roughly 110 days, with negotiations over a 14-point framework still unresolved and the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical oil chokepoints, remaining shuttered.
The 60-day clock
Trump’s remarks were characteristically blunt.
“If it doesn’t get done in 60 days… We go back to bombing.”
The statement came amid reports that a leaked 14-point framework had been circulating as the basis for ending hostilities and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. A signing ceremony had been tentatively discussed for mid-to-late June, but Trump’s comments signal that the White House views whatever progress has been made as insufficient, or at least wants Tehran to think so.
