India, March 26 -- President Donald Trump has been vocal with his public statements regarding the situation in the ongoing US-Iranian conflict, declaring at a meeting in the White House that the Iranian military is basically defeated and that the strategic Strait of Hormuz will be reopened in case Tehran agrees to a diplomatic agreement. With tensions in its fourth week, Trump has been confident in his rhetoric, a need to influence how people think and a pressure to achieve success in a regionally expensive conflict.

They are saying to people this is a disaster. They know it. That's why they are talking to us. They wouldn't talk otherwise. They're defeated. They can't make a comeback. If they make the right deal, then the Strait of Hormu...