Donald Trump's roller coaster doctrine has permeated the Third Gulf War from the outset. This weekend we have seen another sharp, precipitous turn: from moderate optimism for the start of talks between Americans and Iranians in Islamabad, after Tuesday's in extremis agreement that halted "hell" over the Middle East; to worrying pessimism due to the lack of agreement in Pakistani meeting rooms and the return to more visceral threats between Washington and Tehran, which hint at bombing the strategic Hormuz, the epicenter of this war, again. hint at bombing the strategic Hormuz, the epicenter of this war. The central command of the United States army has announced that the blockade will begin this afternoon, specifically at 4 p.m., Catalan time.

In an unusual appearance from the White House, Melania Trump said this Thursday that she has never had any relationship with the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and assured that the accusations in this regard are defamatory. "The lies that link me to the disgraced Jeffrey Epstein must end today. People who lie about me have no ethical standards, no humility, nor respect. I do not oppose their ignorance, but I reject their petty attempts to defame my reputation," she defended while reading the statement from the podium.

The doomsday announced by Donald Trump has not arrived this morning in Iran either. Shortly before the clock in Washington struck eight in the evening and his final ultimatum expired, the US president has backed down again. The Republican announced on his social network that he is suspending for two weeks "hell" with which he had promised to annihilate Persian civilization, in exchange for Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz. But the truce, mediated by Pakistan, accentuates the asymmetry that has been observed during the month of conflict. In his confirmation of the agreement, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Aragchi, stressed that it will be possible to "circulate safely" through the maritime passage "through the coordination of the armed forces of Iran".

Donald Trump's ultimatum to unleash "hell" on Iran has entered overtime. Although the United States has been bombing bridges and power plants for days, the president has redoubled his threats to commit war crimes with a massive attack on civilian targets. "An entire civilization will die tonight, beyond recovery. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will," he wrote this Tuesday in a message to Truth Social, in which he assured that "47 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end." This is said by the president of a country that has only existed for 250 years, compared to the more than 2,000 years of Persian history.

Donald Trump has indulged in recounting his own version of "Saving Private Ryan" to try to convince Americans that the promise of "America First" has not drowned in the mud of Iran. The US president appeared this Monday to explain how the rescue of his pilot who crashed in the south of the Persian country last Friday unfolded. Trump clung to Hollywood epic to cover up the gasoline price that is increasingly squeezing citizens' pockets. "In the US Army, we leave no soldier behind," he stated. The premise does not apply to the most vulnerable who depend on social programs that the magnate wants to cut (about 73 billion dollars) with the aim of increasing the Pentagon's budget by 40% for the fiscal year 2027. The president has once again used his biblical rhetoric, hoping that the rescue of a soldier will perform a miracle to compensate for the thirteen casualties in a war he still doesn't know how to justify. "We have a helicopter with many bullet impacts. It's impressive. Nobody has the equipment we have. Nobody has the army we have. Not even close: it is, by far, the most powerful in the world. Flight crews and combat aircraft took extraordinary risks to rescue their fellow service members," Trump recounted. The magnate has invoked the warmongering epic to threaten Iran again, after extending his ultimatum three times. Initially, if the ayatollahs did not open the Strait of Hormuz this Monday afternoon, Washington was to unleash "hell" on the country. Over the weekend, with the deadline about to expire, he extended it again until this Tuesday at eight in the evening, Washington time. "Iran can be destroyed in a single night, and that night could be tomorrow," said the Republican.

The start of the Gaza war and Israel's escalation in the genocide against Palestinians opened a rift between the Democratic bases in the United States. In the 2024 presidential elections, Kamala Harris found herself caught between millionaire donations from pro-Israeli lobby groups and a growingly critical militancy of the massacre in the Strip. Her inability to take a strong stance on the conflict took its toll at the ballot box, with a significant bleed of protest votes. Now, the war in Iran, into which Donald Trump has allowed himself to be dragged by Benjamin Netanyahu, has intensified this distancing. The rupture is such that many Democratic candidates for this year's legislative elections are trying to distance themselves from AIPAC, one of the major pro-Israel lobbies.

After addressing the nation to ask for more time and patience to end the war against Iran, Donald Trump is now looking to Congress for more money. The White House presented a budget this Friday to spend 1.5 trillion dollars on defense in 2027. If approved, it would be the highest allocation in modern history, with an increase of 40% compared to this year's accounts. Although the package is not directly linked to the conflict in the Middle East, it coincides with the first month of war. It is estimated that in the first 100 hours of campaign – which began on February 28 – Washington had spent a minimum of 3.7 billion dollars, that is, about 888 million dollars per day.

President Donald Trump has dismissed Pam Bondi as the United States Attorney General, according to sources from the White House confirmed to various American media outlets. During the past year, the Attorney General had provoked the president's anger on certain occasions for not being aggressive enough when taking legal action against the leader's political enemies. The handling of the papers in the Epstein case, the pedophile who died in his cell before being tried.

A speech that could have been one of his messages on Truth Social. All the expectation generated around Wednesday night's appearance has been reduced to a 20-minute intervention that seemed like a compilation of statements from previous days. Donald Trump has once again said that he expects to end the war in the next two or three weeks; that he is negotiating with the supposed new Iranian regime whose identity he has not even revealed and that the United States is very close to achieving its objectives. The US president seeks to buy time for a war that, according to his own forecasts, should have already ended. "It is very important that we maintain the perspective of this conflict," defended the Republican, who cited the four weeks of inconclusive war as a supposed triumph compared to other longer conflicts such as Vietnam or World War II.

The Supreme Court of the United States began proceedings this Tuesday to determine the legality of Donald Trump's executive order to limit birthright citizenship.And, in an unprecedented gesture, the president appeared to listen to the oral arguments. It is the first time a sitting president has attended a Supreme Court session, highlighting how important this case is to the president.

At the beginning of the conflict, Donald Trump predicted that the military campaign in Iran would last about four weeks. With a month of war completed and US oil prices exceeding $4 for the first time since 2022, the US president has said that, in his opinion, the conflict could be over in "two or three weeks." "We will leave very soon," he announced this Tuesday afternoon from the Oval Office. After days of insisting that he was negotiating with the Iranians to end the conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the leader now assured that no agreement would be necessary for the war to end. "Iran does not have to reach any agreement. No, they don't have to make any deal with me," he stressed. Shortly after these statements, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that Trump will address the nation this Wednesday at nine in the evening (local time) to talk about Iran.

Another day of the war in which words contradict facts. The White House insisted yesterday that they are negotiating with the Iranians and that the talks are good, but on the ground the first troops specialized in land operations are ready and Iran is raising the tone. Iran's Revolutionary Guard warned this Tuesday that, starting tomorrow, it will attack American companies in the region, according to state media in the country. In total, Tehran speaks of 18 companies, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Intel, IBM, Tesla, and Boeing, to which it warns that they "should expect the destruction of their facilities for every act of terrorism in Iran," in reference to the attacks by the United States and Israel.

Donald Trump insists he is holding "serious" talks with "a new, more reasonable" Iranian "regime." He stated this in a message on his social network, Truth Social, in which he again threatened Iran with attacks on electrical, oil, and civilian facilities. "Great progress has been made, but if for some reason a deal is not reached soon [...] and if the Strait of Hormuz is not immediately "open for business," we will conclude our lovely "stay" in Iran by completely blowing up and destroying all of its power plants, oil wells, and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalination plants!), which, by the way, we have not yet "touched," the message read.

Dante's inferno is formed by descending circles, increasingly narrow, until the last one, where Lucifer is. The war in Iran is also entering a dark, uncontrolled descent. It has gone from a controlled air operation to the mobilization of troops in the region, prepared for a possible ground incursion. As Dante descended into hell, Virgil guided and advised him. Donald Trump also has his Virigils, but as the days go by, it is increasingly difficult to understand what kind of accompaniment he has received or if he has simply ignored the warnings.

Donald Trump's attempts to steer the war with Iran down a diplomatic path have led to a metalinguistic debate about negotiations. Are there really peace talks? Are they just contacts mediated by third countries, such as Turkey and Pakistan? The regime flatly denies it, despite having rejected the peace proposal, and the US president fluctuates between threats to the ayatollahs – telling them to sit down and talk before it's "too late" – and repeated extensions of last weekend's ultimatum. A few hours before the deadline expired again, the tycoon announced a new 10-day extension yesterday.

With less than 24 hours remaining until the ultimatum imposed by Donald Trump on Iran expired, the US president has extended it by ten more days. The magnate postpones his threat to attack the country's electrical infrastructure until April 6th at 8 PM Washington time, if Tehran does not open the Strait of Hormuz beforehand. The decision was communicated through Truth Social, where he published a message "at the request of the Iranian government" as "proof" that he will not escalate the offensive until the agreed-upon date. Despite the Iranian regime having repeatedly denied any type of dialogue with the United States, the US president has presented the new deadline as a request from his interlocutors and has assured that the conversations "are going well". "Negotiations are ongoing and, despite erroneous reports to the contrary from the "}fake news media and others, they are going very well.

Iran, which until now had denied any diplomatic contact with the White House, has rejected Donald Trump's peace plan to end the war. State media reported that Tehran considers the US demands excessive. The regime, which has been waging a campaign of attrition from the outset, said that the conflict will only end when the ayatollahs decide and under their conditions. The Iranian military was defiant and, in a statement, told Trump not to call "what is his defeat" an agreement.

Donald Trump's ultimatums are being blown away by the wind, swept off their feet by reality. After having the world on tenterhooks since Saturday gave Tehran a 48-hour deadline To reopen the passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, under the threat of bombing its power plants and nuclear facilities, the US president has backtracked via social media. In a message to Truth Social this Monday, he asserted that after two days of "very good and productive" talks with Iran, he ordered the military to postpone any attacks against Iranian energy infrastructure for at least five days, that is, until Friday. These days will be used to continue negotiations. Speaking to reporters as he left Palm Beach for an event in Memphis, Trump added that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and special envoy Steve Witkoff are leading the talks with Iran and that the ayatollahs have agreed not to develop a nuclear weapon. According to the tycoon, the negotiations will continue, as the Kushner-Witkoff team is speaking with a "very important" person in Tehran, but he did not reveal who it is. Trump has indeed said he is not the new supreme leader. Iran took minutes to celebrate Trump's decision as a setback, and Iranian state agencies denied that the regime is negotiating anything with Washington.

At four corners of the Capitol, where Donald Trump is trying to pass an extra $200 billion for the Iran war, the conflict has taken on a more mundane, but no less troubling, form. The price at the Exxon pump on Capitol South has jumped from about $2.96 a gallon—roughly three liters—to $5.39. Miranda, filling up her maroon Honda, notices as we speak. “But it was $2.96 a few weeks ago. My God. I’m definitely not filling up today,” she says, sticking out her sleeve, her eyes still wide as oranges.

The war against Iran has entered a new phase, one that is more uncomfortable for the United States and whose effects are no longer limited to the military sphere. The conflict has escalated with consequences that are being felt in energy markets, global logistics, and diplomatic alliances. One of the turning points has been The attack on the South Pars gas field, the world's largest, which accounts for about 70-75% of Iran's gas productionThe attack forced the shutdown of two major refineries in the area. The effect was immediate: natural gas and Brent crude oil prices rose sharply, causing serious disruptions in international energy markets.