Another day, another deadline.

US President Trump wrote on his social media page that the period of time for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz will expire on Monday. He said “all hell will reign down” on them should they not comply by this particular date.

This is just another in a long line of deadlines.

All of this comes as the US continues to search for one of the pilots downed by Iranian air defences in the last few days. The difficulty of the search is compounded by the fact that it appears two search and rescue helicopters were also downed by Iranian defences. The crews of those helicopters were rescued.

This has many ramifications for the US. Washington had recently deployed, for example, B-52 bombers, which can carry a far greater payload, because the president had claimed Iran’s air defence systems had been obliterated. Well, clearly the events over the past 24 hours show this is not the case. The deployment of huge, highly expensive and vulnerable bombers may now have to be stopped.

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