00:01A motorcade carries U.S. President Donald Trump away from a golf excursion on a rainy Easter Sunday in the
00:08state of Virginia.
00:09But the president has far more matters on his mind than golf, as he's made clear in an expletive-filled
00:15social media post.
00:19More than a month after his administration and Israel launched strikes on Iran, war drags on.
00:24Iran is limiting access to the Strait of Hormuz, this waterway key to global oil and gas supplies.
00:31Trump has changed his mind on the strait, which he earlier said the U.S. doesn't need.
00:36Now he's threatening to strike Iran's bridges and power plants Tuesday if Tehran doesn't reopen the strait by then.
00:43Iran says no.
00:45Our armed forces would target any similar infrastructure that is owned or in any way or manner related to the
00:54United States or contributes to their act of aggression against Iran.
01:01Iran's Revolutionary Guards say the strait will never return to the way it was, especially for the U.S. and
01:06Israel.
01:09In the Iranian capital, Tehran, even some people not completely in line with the government's Islamic policies feel a sense
01:15of defiant patriotism.
01:20It's true that some people wear different coverings.
01:22I myself don't have a complete hijab, but I will never hand over my homeland to a people who are
01:27strangers to our country.
01:28For some in the Trump administration, this war has religious overtones, with Trump hailing the rescue of a U.S.
01:35airman shot down over Iran as, quote, an Easter miracle.
01:38But some analysts say rescue operations don't win wars.
01:42And they say Trump faces a stark choice about how far he will go as Iran holds on.
01:48As impressive as the operation to rescue the airmen who were fallen behind the enemy lines is, wars are not
01:58won by rescue operations.
02:00And President Trump has created a situation now that any kind of clean cut victory is just not on the
02:08table.
02:08He is trapped in an escalation trap.
02:11His only option in order to get closer to his objectives is to go deeper into this crisis.
02:18Observers say that if Trump is serious, and if Iran doesn't back down, this war, far from over, is heading
02:25for a turning point.
02:27Hank Xu and John Van Trieste for Taiwan Plus.
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