Trump prepared to end Iran campaign without reopening Hormuz, WSJ says

President Trump has expressed to his aides that he is prepared to complete the U.S. military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, The Wall Street Journal’s Alexander Ward and Meridith McGraw report. Trump and his advisors have concluded that efforts to open the chokepoint would extend the conflict beyond his timeline of four to six weeks, and the president has decided that the U.S. should achieve its main goals of crippling Iran’s navy and its missile stocks while pressuring Tehran diplomatically to resume the free flow of trade, the report states.