The article names Israel and the US as the aggressors who started the war but leaves Iran's own acts of closure and infrastructure attacks in an agentless or passive construction, applying a stricter standard of attribution to one side than the other.

How it builds, in The Strait of Hormuz background paragraph

No actor named: who closed the strait, who attacked infrastructure?
The closure of the strait and attacks on energy infrastructure in the region have sent oil prices soaring.
Agentless construction: harmful acts attributed to no one
Named actors: Israel and US explicitly credited with attack
Israel and the US attacked Iran on February 29 launching what has turned into a months-long regional war.
Full attribution: named states, named act, named date
Iran's closure framed as legal assertion, not hostile act
Iran is now asserting sovereignty over the waterway, parts of which pass through Iranian and Omani territorial waters.
Neutral legal framing: no harmful intent implied

The same decision, both sides

Attribution of a harmful act

Israel and the US are named explicitly as the parties who launched the attack that started the war.

Israel and the US attacked Iran on February 29 launching what has turned into a months-long regional war.

Iran's closure of the strait and attacks on energy infrastructure are described with no named actor, leaving the reader unable to assign responsibility.

The closure of the strait and attacks on energy infrastructure in the region have sent oil prices soaring.

Framing of a contested territorial act

The US and Israel's opening of hostilities is described as a straightforward factual attack with a precise date.

Israel and the US attacked Iran on February 29 launching what has turned into a months-long regional war.

Iran's seizure of control over the strait is framed in neutral legal language as an assertion of sovereignty, softening its coercive character.

Iran is now asserting sovereignty over the waterway, parts of which pass through Iranian and Omani territorial waters.

What a reader is left with. A reader is left with a clear mental image of Israel and the US as the named, dated initiators of the war, while Iran's own coercive acts against the strait and regional energy infrastructure appear to have happened by themselves, with no responsible party attached.

Iran’s Ghalibaf accuses Trump of conducting show diplomacy ‘on loop’

Iran’s parliament speaker and chief negotiator has accused Donald Trump of conducting “theatre diplomacy on loop” after the United States president repeatedly said he was ordering attacks on the country before calling them off. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf made the remarks in a social media post on Thursday, just days after Trump called off the planned strikes and claimed that “the perimeters of a deal” had already been agreed with Tehran. Dismissing the narrative, Ghalibaf said that Washington keeps switching from military threats to negotiation offers as a failed pressure tactic. Recommended Stories list of 3 items list 1 of 3 Hormuz deal ‘close’: What’s the latest on each side’s positions? list 2 of 3 War on Iran: Iran and Oman agree on Strait of Hormuz deal list 3 of 3 Is Israel’s Netanyahu preparing to fight Iran alone? end of list “‘Massive attack coming…wait, never mind, they want to negotiate.’ That’s theater diplomacy on loop,” Ghalibaf wrote on X. “Using bullying + broken promises + fake news as leverage is a failed strategy.” He called on the US to “acknowledge the facts” and fulfill its commitments. On Saturday, Trump cancelled a planned large-scale military attack on Iran, claiming that Tehran and other countries in the region had asked the US to call off the strikes as a diplomatic breakthrough was close. Trump claimed the agreement would bring the “ommediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT” and end what he called “Iran’s nuclear threat”. Iran has been holding talks with Oman to reopen the Strait of Hormuz , with Tehran claiming that a deal is “on the verge of being finalised“, after both countries agreed on the coordinates of routes through the critical waterway. The strait, a major artery for global energy, was a free international passage way before Israel and the US attacked Iran on February 29 launching what has turned into a months-long regional war. Advertisement Iran is now asserting sovereignty over the waterway, parts of which pass through Iranian and Omani territorial waters. The closure of the strait and attacks on energy infrastructure in the region have sent oil prices soaring. Trump told reporters on Thursday that he believed the war with Iran was close to an end, promising that petrol prices would drop when the conflict is over. “I think it’s going to end pretty soon. I don’t think they can go much longer,” he said in the Oval Office. He added that he is involved in the negotiations with Iran. “I think we’re doing fine,” Trump says. Trump has been asserting for months that Iran is already defeated and that the conflict is on the verge of ending. Iranian officials, however, have emphasised that they are prepared for a long war.

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