The penny has clearly dropped. Trump and his domesticated colony of phocine honkers and clappers have been forced to admit what the Iranians (and presumably Western intelligence agencies) have known for some time: that Iran has a pretty much immovable stranglehold over the Strait of Hormuz, which has now clearly been shown to be the Achilles Heel of the US-Israeli position in the Middle East and, to some extent, of the global economy.
For reasons set out later in this essay, the CIA will have known that there was very little that the US and Israel could do if Iran chose to curtail shipping through the Strait, which developments to date have confirmed.
We can only suppose…