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How far will Trump go in Iran?

The president has issued yet another ultimatum to the Iranian regime — this time with profanity.

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We’re now more than five weeks into President Donald Trump’s unpopular and apparently unprovoked war with Iran, and any decisive “victory” still seems far off. The US and Israel have dominated the battlefield from the start. But Iran successfully brought an economic crisis to a gunfight: By closing the Strait of Hormuz, a major chokepoint in the global energy trade, it spiked the price of oil, fertilizer, and other goods and triggered rationing and curfews in dozens of countries. A gallon of gas now tops $4, on average, in the United States.

Trump has veered from one approach to another as he struggles to resolve this thorny situation. First he tried suggesting that the closure of the strait was not actually a problem at all. When that failed, he said other countries would handle it. On Sunday morning, he took a very, er, different tact: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell,” he posted on Truth Social, where he threatened to bomb Iran’s power plants and bridges.

The thing about Trump’s threats is that he often........

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