pcr points out some contradictions in the trump claims that he's opened the hormuz. apparently he hasn't; 

 

PCR On Target and Dialogue Works Explores the Claim that the Strait of Hormuz Is Open and that Oil Flows have Returned to Normal

Paul Craig Roberts

Two days ago on Sunday Larry Sparano and I discussed On Target the latest claims by US Central Command, the US Treasury Secretary, and the London Telegraph that the US was in complete control of the Strait of Hormuz  and had been for the past few months during which one billion barrels of oil had, under US escort, exited the Persian Gulf through the strait and that the daily average of barrels of oil leaving the Gulf was back to prewar levels.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mr1TVgp8Ho 

Despite these declarations that the crisis has been over for two months or more, the oil prices are still high, Trump is pressuring France to release its oil reserves in order to keep the energy price from rising more before the US midterm election, and Trump is sending a third US aircraft carrier task force and 50,000 more Marines to the area, and is considering a major land invasion and perhaps use of nuclear weapons.  Why all these drastic measures if the strait is open and oil flows have returned to normal?  How is it possible that neither the media nor the Trump regime notice the contradictions in these reports. 

Yesterday, Monday, Nima and I continued the discussion on Dialogue Works. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal had joined in the chorus that the strait was open and in Washington’s hands.  But still no one explained how the Persian Gulf had passed out of Iran’s hands into Washington’s, especially when the US bases in the Persian Gulf were all inoperative and the closest US warship to the strait was a thousand kilometers distant.  https://www.youtube.com/live/zpF56Bt6cOY   ................more.........