Was Iran's biggest threat to UAE’s Barakah nuclear plant the moment that forced Trump to blink?

After vowing to “obliterate” Iran’s power grid, Donald Trump suddenly tried to cast himself as co‑manager of the world’s most explosive chokepoint. In a bizarre riff, he said the reopened Strait of Hormuz would be “jointly controlled” — “maybe me, maybe me… me and the Ayatollah, whoever the next Ayatollah is” — while claiming secret talks run by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner aimed at a “complete and total resolution” of hostilities. Tehran, which had threatened Gulf power plants and the UAE’s Barakah nuclear station, publicly denied any contact and insisted Washington had simply blinked.