WASHINGTON—President Trump and top aides spent the weekend framing their Iran operation as a resounding military success while imploring other countries to join their effort to resolve a worsening energy crisis related to the Strait of Hormuz.
The Trump administration plans to announce that multiple countries have agreed to form a coalition that will escort ships through the waterway, which runs along the Iranian coast, U.S. officials said.
The U.S. and potential coalition countries are still discussing whether those operations would begin before or after the war ends.
Gasoline prices continue to rise and questions swirl from within the Republican Party as to the endgame.
The military operation has resulted in the striking of more than 6,000 Iranian targets including the killing of Iran’s supreme leader and other top regime officials.
But the strategic problems—growing instability in the Middle East, a global energy crisis and the domestic political fallout—have proven difficult to manage through bombing alone.
