{"id":4628,"date":"2026-04-02T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/4628\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:22:10","slug":"britain-says-40-countries-discuss-reopening-strait-of-hormuz-after-iran-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/4628\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain says 40 countries discuss reopening Strait of Hormuz after Iran blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 40 countries are discussing joint action to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to stop Iran holding \u201cthe global economy hostage\u201d, Britain said on Thursday, after US President Donald Trump said securing the waterway was for others to resolve.<\/p>\n

British foreign minister Yvette Cooper said Iran\u2019s \u201crecklessness\u201d in blockading \u200cthe waterway was \u201chitting our global economic security\u201d as she chaired the virtual meeting, which included France, Germany, Canada, the United Arab Emirates and India.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen Iran hijack an international shipping route to hold the global economy hostage,\u201d Cooper said in opening remarks broadcast to the media before the rest of the meeting took place behind closed doors.<\/p>\n

The United States did not attend the talks, one official said. The discussions, involving representatives of some 40 countries, took place after Trump said on Wednesday evening that the Strait could open \u201cnaturally\u201d and it was the \u2060responsibility of countries that rely on the waterway to ensure it was open.<\/p>\n

Iran has effectively shut<\/a> down the key \u200cwaterway, which carries about a fifth of the world\u2019s total oil consumption, in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes which began in late February. Reopening it has become a priority for governments around the world as energy prices soar.
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Trump says US could end war in Iran in 2 to 3 weeks, with or without a deal<\/p>\n

Trump says US could end war in Iran in 2 to 3 weeks, with or without a deal<\/p>\n

European countries initially refused \u200cTrump\u2019s demand to send their navies to the area because of fears about being dragged into the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 40 countries are discussing joint action to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to stop Iran holding \u201cthe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,1193,361,1249,634,83,2101,2724,1233,24,2722,2723,1146,551,2068],"class_list":{"0":"post-4628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-guillaume-vernet","16":"tag-india","17":"tag-iran","18":"tag-revolutionary-guards","19":"tag-south-korea","20":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","21":"tag-united-arab-emirates","22":"tag-yvette-cooper"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116336272541014710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}