{"id":2354,"date":"2026-04-03T19:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/2354\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T19:25:24","slug":"iran-war-take-hormuz-by-force-france-and-britain-have-better-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/2354\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran War: Take Hormuz by Force? France and Britain Have Better Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer have become two of Donald Trump\u2019s favorite punching bags as the US president tries to extricate his country from a war with Iran that has choked off a critical oil route, thus depleting the world\u2019s energy supplies and destabilizing financial markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Yet despite his regular provocations over their (and Europe\u2019s) sensible refusal to join his conflict and \u201ctake the oil\u201d by force, the French and British leaders are key figures to watch as America\u2019s allies try to see a way through Trump\u2019s geopolitical miasma. The Old Continent had nothing to do with the US-Israeli war of choice, and yet the fallout is threatening their citizens\u2019 safety, security and prosperity as diesel prices hit a four-year high and terrorism risks rise. Their efforts may even bear fruit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer have become two of Donald Trump\u2019s favorite punching bags as the US president&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2344,2346,36,73,5,1339,50,738,30,2347,584],"class_list":{"0":"post-2354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-donald-john-trump","9":"tag-economic-sanctions","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-generic-1st-cl-future","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-military","16":"tag-paris","17":"tag-view","18":"tag-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}