Over the weekend, President Trump indicated there could soon be an agreement with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz while also threatening the largest military strike since World War II. Vice Adm. Robert Murrett (Ret.), professor of practice of public administration and international affairs, provides analysis on CBS News.

“The Iranians have put several other conditions on reopening this [Strait of Hormuz] in addition to the traffic separation scheme that has been put together between Iran and Oman, which may or may not be east to digest by the White House and other actors, to include an end to the blockade, an end to oil sanctions, negotiations on frozen assets, and then also some concerns about Lebanon, which the Iranians also seem to throw in,” he says.

Regarding another large-scale strike, Murrett says, “There's only so much you can do with air strikes to coerce foreign governments, this case the Iranian government, to get them to behave differently.”

“The Iranian goverment has already reached out to other Gulf nations like Saudia Arabia and Qatar and the Emirates and Bahrain, and so forth, and told them that if this large-scale offensive air strike does take place as threatened by the president, they will go after infrastructure targets in the Gulf states,” says Murrett.