You can not trust Iran for one day

Hormuz traffic status disintegrates when Iran rejects port blockade

Just a day after President Donald Trump and Iran officials both announced that traffic was resuming through the Strait of Hormuz, a key path that carries some 20% of the world's oil supplies, Iran has reversed course.

It announced heading into the weekend that the "control of the Strait of Hormuz has returned to its previous state … under strict management and control of the armed forces."

The rogue Islamic regime is protesting Trump's continued blockade of its ports, a move that was designed to apply pressure on Iran to reach a longer term agreement that would provide, after decades of instability because of its worldwide sponsorship of terror, some level ground.

The reopening had been conditioned on a ceasefire between Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Israel, and Trump has just announced that was beginning.

At Not the Bee came the comment, "We're back at a stalemate it would appear. … The deal didn't even last 24 hours and Iran has reversed course, reimposed sanctions, and closed the strait once more."

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