“President Trump headed into the weekend having vowed that U.S. forces would unleash a furious new round of attacks against Iran, saying that the military would be ‘hitting them very hard.’ By Saturday night, Mr. Trump said that the military was still ‘locked and loaded’ to carry out the strikes, but that he had decided to call them off,” the New York Times reports.“Mr. Trump said that talks with Iran would begin on Monday, and that he was told there could be a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial shipping route, as well as ‘a deal on the nuclear.'”“He has, of course, said most of this before. Repeatedly.”