{"id":654,"date":"2026-05-26T17:07:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:07:36","slug":"when-iran-thumbs-its-nose-at-the-ceasefire-the-trump-administration-shrugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"When Iran thumbs its nose at the ceasefire, the Trump administration shrugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div> <div>\n<button>\n<strong>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Summary<\/span>\n<\/strong>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite the latest exchange of attacks, the Trump administration continues to insist the ceasefire with Iran remains intact.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s become a pattern whenever there are potential violations, with the US appearing anxious to avoid resuming the war and eager to cut a deal.<\/li>\n<li>The administration&#8217;s reluctance to restart hostilities, however, appears to be undermining its negotiating leverage with Tehran.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The responses to the latest attacks between the US and Iran during the supposed ceasefire have been telling.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=650\">During a hurricane, Asheville seniors formed a pod that may help them age in place<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            Tehran called the US strikes on its missile launch sites and boats a flagrant \u201cviolation\u201d of the ceasefire and threatened to retaliate.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The United States, meanwhile, assured that the ceasefire was still \u201congoing,\u201d despite casting Iran as the aggressor.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A spokesman for US Central Command accused Iranian boats of \u201cattempting to emplace mines\u201d in the Strait of Hormuz. That would be a remarkably provocative act, especially in the context of what appeared to be some of the most serious peace talks to date. But then the spokesman added: \u201cU.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            This kind of response has become par for the course.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            And the pattern reinforces how apparently anxious the Trump administration is to bring the war to an end \u2014 a dynamic that is hurting the United States\u2019 leverage.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The most recent episode involves what the US military called \u201cself-defense strikes\u201d targeting missile launch sites and boats near the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. Later in the day, Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said that it \u201cshot down a US drone and forced a US drone and fighter jet to flee,\u201d casting it as a \u201creciprocal response.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But while Iran\u2019s response was defiant, the US response was less so.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In addition to US Central Command assuring the ceasefire remained \u201congoing,\u201d Secretary of State Marco Rubio twice talked around the strikes when asked about them while traveling in India. The first time, he talked broadly about peace negotiations. The second time, he talked about the need for the Strait of Hormuz to be open.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The situation harkens back to a pair of episodes in early May.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In the first one, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine at a briefing cited Iran firing nine times at commercial vessels and seizing two container ships, as well as \u201cmore than 10\u201d attacks on American forces. But he instantly qualified that all were \u201cbelow the threshold of restarting major combat operations at this point.\u201d He cast it as \u201clow-level kinetics.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was asked whether the ceasefire was over, he assured reporters it was not.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            He at one point seemed to cast what was happening in the strait as distinct from the broader war. And he urged Iran to \u201cbe prudent\u201d and make sure its military actions didn\u2019t cross the \u201cthreshold\u201d for violating the ceasefire.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            A few days later, the US struck military facilities it said were responsible for attacking US warships in the strait.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=638\">Federal court blocks Alabama plan for new congressional districts that could help Republicans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            But President Donald Trump again downplayed it.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThe ceasefire is going. It\u2019s in effect,\u201d he told ABC News in early May. He described the US attacks as \u201cjust a love tap.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            As with today, while the Trump administration assured the public that ceasefire was intact, Iran said it had been violated and responded with what it claimed to be \u201creciprocal\u201d strikes.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            And then there\u2019s arguably the biggest potential violation of the ceasefire: Iran keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            When Trump announced the ceasefire on April 7, he was unambiguous that it would only last as long as Iran reopened the strait.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ships are anchored in the Strait of Hormuz, near Larak Island, Iran, on May 16.\" class=\"wp-image-653\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/92ad385618a4e1ac5e86001e80024da9.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/92ad385618a4e1ac5e86001e80024da9.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/92ad385618a4e1ac5e86001e80024da9-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Ships are anchored in the Strait of Hormuz, near Larak Island, Iran, on May 16.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Majid Saeedi\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            He said on social media that, \u201csubject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            That \u201cCOMPLETE, IMMEDIATE\u201d reopening of the strait, of course, never happened. The administration tried to put a good face on it in the days that followed and cited supposed progress in reopening it. But the US is now seven weeks into the ceasefire, and the strait remains a logjam.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            By trying to keep the ceasefire going and downplaying Iran\u2019s provocations, the Trump administration is betraying a readily apparent anxiousness to avoid resuming the war and an eagerness to cut a deal\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            To that point, Trump has repeatedly ignored his own deadlines for Tehran to make a deal and declined to restart large-scale hostilities, despite his frequent threats.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            And that posture is undermining his negotiating position. Iran seems to be gambling that Trump is in a bigger hurry to bring the war to a conclusion than it is.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=636\">Teens need to press pause on late-night doomscrolling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The divergent responses to the latest attacks only back up that belief.\n    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The responses to the latest attacks between the US and Iran during the supposed ceasefire have been telling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>When Iran thumbs its nose at the ceasefire, the Trump administration shrugs - 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