Trump is now calling on other countries, with little success, to send their warships to help keep open the Strait of Hormuz as the task is too big for the US Navy, and he is cutting deals, or trying to, with Putin and Modi to remove sanctions on Russian oil in exchange for the de-sanctioned oil to be sent to Europe and not to Asia.  

Trump, or his advisors, have come up with a scheme to invade Kharg Island, which seems more like a suicide mission.

The Iranians are holding firm on one level but without realizing it might  be cracking on another. I am not convinced that the Iranians fully understand the situation.  For example, Mohsen Rezaee, retired commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, now a member of the Expediency Discernment Council, said that the "presence of the US in the Persian Gulf has been the main cause of insecurity over the past 50 years." The end of the war, he said, requires "US withdrawal from the Persian Gulf."

It seems to me that General Rezaee misunderstands the situation.  It is not the American presence per se that is the cause of insecurity. The cause is that the American bases are there to serve Israel.  Moreover, the real cause of insecurity for all of the Muslim states is Israel's Zionist agenda of Greater Israel.  Once defined as "from the Nile to the Euphrates," Israel has recently redefined Greater Israel to be from the "Nile to Pakistan."

The general does not seem to understand that removing the US from the Persian Gulf does not remove the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel. What Iran should be demanding is the disavowal of the Zionist agenda.

Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, hasn't a clue either.  He says the "Only way to end this war" is to recognize Iran's legitimate rights, payment of reparations (to Iran) and firm guarantees against future aggression."  He is badly wrong.  The war might again be put on pause by Iranian officials who fail to comprehend the situation, but the only way war will end is by Israel renouncing the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel.  And that Israel will not do.

Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has rejected the talk of peace negotiations.  Trump, he says has already twice deceived and sneak-attacked Iran while engaged in negotiations, and Iran will not make the same mistake again.

In actual fact, Iran is making a much worse mistake.  The Zionist agenda of Greater Israel is not consistent with the Existence of Muslim Iran (or Turkey and Saudi Arabia).  Unless the Zionist agenda is renounced, Iran has no choice but to fight to its own death or to Israel's death.  The fact that Iran has never seized the initiative, has never used its strategic advantage, but has sat on its butt waiting, indeed inviting, an attack, suggests that Iran does not comprehend the Zionist Agenda.