Is it closed or open? Who closed it and how? Were there mines or not?

These were just some of the questions to which it was impossible to find a single straight answer.

With peace talks underway in Islamabad today, we're being hit with a fresh wave of contradictory messaging about the Strait's status, and I just wanted to collate it all together in one place and ask, "Does this make sense?"

Do you remember the mines that both sides said weren't there?

Well, now the New York Times is reporting they are definitely there, but Iran doesn't remember exactly where…

Does that make sense?

Haven't Iran-approved ships from friendly countries been paying at the "toll booth" for at least a couple of weeks? How is that possible if there were mines? Let alone mines that Iran can't locate?