reposting my comments from another thread today.

Trump signed the MoU but the Trump administration has been pretending that the document is different.

The MoU says that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz on point #5. The US pretends that the MoU say that Iran must open the strait. Iran closed the strait because US broke point #1 of the MoU which says Israel must leave Lebanon. US tells commercial ships to go through Strait of Hormuz. IRGC strikes the ships because the strait is closed. Then the US Zionist media says that Iran violated the MoU because US says that Iran has to open the strait. This is a constructed justification for escalation.

So why was there ever a break in the war? Trump didn't want to be doing the war during July 4 celebrations. Also the US wanted a period to replenish munitions and regroup. There's a clip of JD Vance saying this on The Daily Wire. Then there's the perfidy aspect. The US wanted to use the ceasefire as a ruse to continue attacking Iran while pretending to surrender. There was also some trickery around the congressional war powers approval; Pete Hegseth tried to say that Trump didn't need congressional approval because the war was on pause.

jd vance on daily wire https://nitter.net/TheCradleMedia/status/2072273224239350058#m

On Wednesday, Axios + Barak Ravid reported that a US had said that the US is preparing to attack Iran for multiple weeks. This was after the US had attacked Iran for the second time in the past week. Barak Ravid is a reporter for Axios and served in unit 8200 of the IOF at the age 18; Unit 8200 is Israel's equivalent of the US NSA. He speaks directly the White House and reports what they say. So Barak is currently or formerly a spy for Israel and reports whatever the White House tells him to say.

A U.S. official said the current escalation could last a day or two, a week or a month, depending on whether Iran continues attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz

https://nitter.net/BarakRavid/status/2075215197225013406#m

more info https://hexbear.net/comment/7294521

Then on Sunday morning, Jeremy Scahill of Drop Site News spoke with an Iranian official who said that CBS and Axios (Barak Ravid) were doing a disinformation campaign for the Trump administration. The Iranian official said that these media agencies were spreading a lie that Iran's government wanted to open the Strait of Hormuz but that rogue factions in Iran were conducting attacks in the strait. The US is spreading false information to justify US military intervention to take control of the strait.

⚡️A senior Iranian official told me that the White House engaged in a deliberate media disinformation campaign, including through Axios and CBS, claiming Iran blamed a recent attack on a vessel in Hormuz on a rogue sect within the Iranian military and that Tehran was considering an announcement with Oman about opening new transit routes in the Strait.

“This wasn’t random—it was a very deliberate and coordinated media campaign designed to pressure us into changing our decision,” the official said. “We had already clearly told the Qataris and Omanis about our firm and final decision: Iran will not allow anyone to disrupt our security and oversight management of the Strait of Hormuz.”

🔺The Iranian official said the U.S. is putting major pressure on Oman and added that the idea of opening an alternative lane in Hormuz outside of Iranian management “actually came from the American side.”

“We clearly and firmly shared our final position with” the Omanis and mediators, the official said. “The movements we’ve seen in Hormuz over the last few hours are the practical implementation of that exact decision we announced.”

https://nitter.net/DropSiteNews/status/2076237520543560132#m

Trump believes that the US and Israel will defeat Iran. Trump wants to attack Iran indefinitely. Or at least he thinks he can attack Iran enough to sneak some boats through the Strait of Hormuz.