Sixty days ran out Monday with no deal, and the split screen is jarring.
Trump vowed to bomb Oman "if Oman gets in the way" of reopening the strait, hours after Tehran announced an understanding with Muscat on the transit map.
Meanwhile Reuters reporting read on air says Iran handed Washington a deadline of several weeks through Qatar and Pakistan: return to diplomacy and lift the blockade, or the war expands.
Yet in the same news cycle, Kushner described the talks warmly: "Trump will be very patient.
He doesn't want to rush a deal."
Larry Johnson's sharpest analysis maps what a renewed air campaign would even look like now.
With Saudi airspace reportedly closed and Pakistani air defenses arriving on the peninsula, "The F-35s might be immune.
The KC-135 tankers would not." Strip out the tankers and you're down to carrier decks.
He also answers the isolation talking point with geography: South Korea sits this out because 90% of its crude transits Hormuz, refined in plants built for Gulf grades.
The weekend saw 13 ships cross the world's busiest oil chokepoint.
An ultimatum, an olive branch, and an empty sea... all before Tuesday.
@NewSonof
