“The US president wrote two words [on social media] at the beginning of the war: ‘Unconditional surrender’,” Araghchi said. The war on Iran also continues to choke the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important trade routes. US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer accused Trump of launching an illegal war without an exit strategy. “Donald Trump got us into an illegal war, is losing his illegal war, and has no way out of his illegal war,” Schumer wrote on X. The escalation followed the seventh round of Lebanese-Israeli talks in Rome, exposing the gulf between US-sponsored diplomacy and Israel’s continuing military attacks.