Leavitt dismissed media reports from Iran that it had again closed down the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israel’s intensified bombing of targets in Lebanon, stating that taking such an action would be “completely unacceptable.”
Trump, she said, “wants to see the strait reopened immediately without limitation and that’s something we’re going to hold them to.”
She also said that Lebanon is not part of the temporary ceasefire agreement, which seems to be a point of contention with Iran.
Declaring that the nearly six-week operation has “achieved and exceeded its core military objectives,” Leavitt acknowledged that ceasefires “are fragile by nature” and cautioned that a long-term truce to end the war would take time.