Before yesterday's announcement of the failure of the negotiations in Pakistan for a suspension of the conflict that began on February 28 with the attacks on Iran by the US and Israel, on Saturday the US Central Command (Centcom) has announced the launch of an initiative to begin demining the Strait of Hormuz and create a corridor to restore free navigation in the area. "Today - explained the commander of Centcom, Admiral Brad Cooper - we have started the process for the creating a new step and we'll be sharing this soon safe corridor with the maritime industry to promote free movement of goods".

The US command announced that the two destroyers USS Frank E. Peterson and USS Michael Murphy have already crossed the Strait of Hormuz as part of the mission to clear the area of mines that would have been laid by the Revolutionary Guards Corps Islamic of Iran.

If the U.S. Navy is evidently convinced that there are indeed mines in the Strait of Hormuz, not so is US President Donald Trump who, commenting on his social network on the failure of the negotiations in Pakistan, stressed that "Iran had promised to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but knowingly failed to do it. This," he denounced, "caused anxiety, discomfort and suffering to many people and countries around the world. They claim to having placed mines in the water, despite all their Navy and the most of their minelaying ships have been completely destroyed. They may well have done - Trump admitted - but What shipowner would want to take such a risk?" A demining action, whether there are mines or not, therefore appears to be necessary. Beyond Centcom's initiative, the American president has ominously called on Tehran to allow the safe crossing of the Strait: "how had promised - he said - they would do better to start as soon as possible soon the process to reopen this waterway international! They are violating every law."