US President Donald Trump has said that he has asked ‘about seven’ countries to join a coalition to police the Strait of Hormuz.
In a Sunday interview, he warned that NATO faces a “very bad” future if US allies fail to assist in securing the vital waterway currently blocked by Iran, which normally allows for 20 percent of the world’s oil to be shipped from the Persian Gulf.
None have responded to Trump’s request for assistance. While EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said that it’s in Europe’s “interest” to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, she added that “it is out of NATO’s area of action” and that “there are no NATO countries in the Strait of Hormuz.”