President Trump said this week that the United States is 'not in a hurry' to restart talks with Tehran, a notably patient line for a conflict that has dominated headlines for months. At the same time, he confirmed the US Navy has cleared all mines from the main shipping lane in the Strait of Hormuz — a concrete, de-escalatory step that speaks louder than the rhetoric around it.
Iran, for its part, says the strait remains effectively closed despite a proposed Oman-brokered deal to jointly establish a temporary shipping channel and clear remaining mines. The gap between 'cleared' and 'still closed' is exactly the kind of detail that gets lost in a scroll of headlines but matters enormously to insurers, shippers, and anyone pricing oil futures this month.
Whether 'not in a hurry' holds through the fall will say more about where this actually heads than any single statement from either side this week.