President Donald Trump is loudly trying to convince two critical audiences — Iran’s leaders and the American people — that he’s calling the shots in the war.
His problem is that neither may be listening.
With the war’s eight-week mark looming this weekend, a stalemate is tightening as Iran inexorably increases global fallout with its closure of the Strait of Hormuz and Trump tries to throttle its economy with his maritime blockade.
The question that may decide the outcome of the showdown has therefore become which side has the political will to outlast the other.
Trump understands the equation. “I have all the time in the World, but Iran doesn’t,” he declared on social media Thursday. He then lashed out at media narratives suggesting he’s desperate to end the war. “Don’t rush me. Don’t rush me,” Trump told reporters. “Every story I see, ‘Oh, Trump is under time pressure,’ I’m not. No, no. You know who’s under time pressure? They are.”
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