White House officials have told their Israeli counterparts that a potential US operation to re-open the Strait of Hormuz will take several weeks, Channel 12 reports.
If Iran does not give in to US President Trump’s 48-hour deadline, issued yesterday, to open the key shipping lane, the war will be extended to make time for the US operation, according to the report.
US officials are telling the Israelis that a change in strategy is needed, and that Washington will not allow Iran to take the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world’s oil flows, hostage. “We will use this to make them collapse from within,” say US officials, according to the network.
