… works out an agreement. He carefully considers pros and cons of possibly irreversible decisions. He knows that he had always succeeded whenever he had raped his adversaries. His deals have always been struck by coercion.

It is reported that U.S. President Donald Trump has got bored of Iran and the impasse over the Strait of Hormuz.

So are most of the people in the world. Bored of Trump’s back and forth and back again. Impatient of the dramatically emerging global economic crisis. There is no face-saving solution either for Trump or Iran.

Iran is not advised to reverse the shut down of the Strait or to give up its highly-enriched uranium save its nuclear program. Or to waive its claim for reparations. It still has the already badly demolished American airbases in the Gulf monarchies in the cross-hairs, the oil infrastructure of the GCC states. A prospect to close also the strait at the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab.

On the other hand, Trump cannot offer any guarantees that he will refrain from further attacks on Iran, since his strongest ally in the region—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—is a loose cannon. Who will not desist from destroying Lebanon in the same manner in which he annihilated the Gaza Strip.

What can Trump offer Iran at all? Nothing. What must he demand (as Netanyahu’s menial)? Something far beyond Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, of 2015 (by the way finalised by UN Security Council members USA, China, Russia, UK, France, and Germany, hence P5+1, and agreed with Iran). Donald Trump doesn’t even want to read the short version of the JCPOA which he tore into pieces in 2018.

Trump won’t be pleased to read, but even if Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize of 2009 was not justified then, it would have been in 2015. The JCPOA was his masterpiece after decades of US-Iranian strains over Iran’s nuclear program.

Trump has caused problems with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz which are tremendous. It is possible that this experience (causing more problems than solving any) is something he has had again and again in his life. A short-lived apparent success in the beginning (the so-called decapitation strike on February 28 when the Ayatollah together with dozens of high-ranking lieutenants were killed by a joint US/Israeli surprise attack in Tehran), followed, on the same day already, by a backlash when a girls’ elementary school was attacked as well with 156 killed civilians, including 120 girls.

Trump never listens to advisers. That Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz was expected for decades and inevitable, he didn’t care. Netanyahu didn’t tell him. That the American bases in the Gulf are vulnerable, so what?

At least he knows now (after the disaster on Easter south of Isfahan) that a ground operation won’t be successful. That nukes won’t help he was probably told by President Xi when he visited China on a largely useless trip.

So what can we expect next week from the Ghengis Khan of our times. Torn between Hajj, Bibi, MBS, Ahmadinejad, golf, his son’s wedding, Lindsey, FIFA, trading …? Poor guy.

25 May 2026 @ 11:39 UTC+2.

Last modified May 25, 2026.