The arrangement [MoU] promised sanctions relief allowing Iran to sell oil, access to billions of dollars in frozen funds and the possibility of a $300 billion reconstruction fund. Iran’s main commitments were to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to shipping and then negotiate in good faith over its nuclear program.

Gotta love this kind of ahistorical “analysis”. So you see, the US nicely offered this wonderful deal to Iran. Then nothing at all happened for three weeks. The US and “israel” were fully implementing and complying with the MoU.

Three weeks later, in early July, Iran began firing on vessels that the United States had expected to move through the strait. Washington was caught by surprise. “The very dangerous people from Iran, they’re sick,” Trump said at the time, also describing Iran’s leaders as “scum.”

Those bloodthirsty savages in Iran took advantage of us! Iran was supposed to just revert to the state of affairs before the US attacked it, right? The MoU didn’t clearly state that Iran would manage the Strait of Hormuz and the routes ships took through it. The US was perfectly fine to encourage ships to take a forbidden prior route. And perfectly fine to resume its bombing campaign because Iran tried to enforce its control of Hormuz.