Wright's public timeline — floated from a Louisiana LNG facility, not the State Department — tells you who this message was aimed at: energy markets and domestic producers nervous about sustained supply disruption. But advertising a deadline hands Iran a leverage clock. Every week the strait stays closed before that self-imposed date is a week Tehran can extract additional concessions, and every week after it is a credibility problem for the administration. The play here isn't diplomacy; it's price-signal management dressed as foreign policy confidence.