More than four months after Israel and the US launched their war against Iran and nearly a month after Donald Trump and Masoud Pezeshkian signed a memorandum of understanding meant to end it, the Strait of Hormuz — not the nuclear file that supposedly justified the conflict in the first place — has become the fault line on which the entire ceasefire now teeters. There is a bitter irony buried in that fact. When the war began in late February, the strait was open.

Washington cannot accept Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz, and Tehran will not surrender it - a deadlock that points to years of confrontation

More than four months after Israel and the US launched their war against Iran and nearly a month after Donald Trump and Masoud Pezeshkian signed a memorandum of understanding…