“Under the conditional ceasefire, "Iran promised to open the strait of Hormuz, and they knowingly failed to do so."”

Multiple speeches characterizing the Hormuz crisis

Iran's promise was narrower than Trump's condition. Trump conditioned the two-week bombing pause on Iran agreeing to the "COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz." Iran's foreign minister said only that "safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran's Armed Forces and with due consideration of technical limitations." In the days after the ceasefire, traffic stayed near a standstill, five to nine ships against a prewar norm of more than 100 a day, and Iran insisted ships secure its permission. On April 12, after talks failed, Trump ordered a U.S. Navy blockade of ships entering or leaving the strait, and on April 17 Iran's foreign minister declared the strait "completely open" to commercial vessels while Trump kept the U.S. blockade in force. Iran did not deliver the complete, immediate opening Trump demanded, but its own promise was conditional from the start, so "knowingly failed" overstates a breach of what Iran actually agreed.