The Trump administration is not looking to wind down the violence in the Iran war anytime soon. The current escalation could last a day or a month, depending on whether Iran attacks more commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, according to unnamed U.S. officials who spoke with Axios Thursday. But the brutality and bloodshed aren’t expected to simmer down in the meantime. “We’re going to slap them a bit so they understand we’re not fucking around,” one American official told Axios’s Barak Ravid