{"id":121880,"date":"2026-05-19T20:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/121880\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T20:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:10:18","slug":"potential-nato-mission-in-strait-of-hormuz-is-political-decision-top-commander-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/121880\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential NATO mission in strait of Hormuz is political decision, top commander says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Reuters;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Reuters\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"171\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2020-11\/62e21440-2fbd-11eb-95ff-5673fa3d2f9f.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Tue, May 19, 2026 at 2:50 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"650\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/reuters.com\/d692386327e3168ee1e80dbaa4078e99.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FILE PHOTO: Ships and boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, April 22, 2026. REUTERS\/Stringer\/File Photo<\/p>\n<p>BRUSSELS, May 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Top NATO \u200ccommander Alexus \u200cGrynkewich said on Tuesday \u200bthat a potential mission of the military alliance \u200cin \u2060the strait of Hormuz would \u2060be a political decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The \u200bconditions under \u200bwhich \u200bNATO would \u200cconsider operating in the Strait of Hormuz are ultimately a political \u200cdecision,&#8221; Grynkewich \u200bsaid, \u200bspeaking \u200bin Brussels \u200cwhere he met \u200bwith \u200bmilitary chiefs from NATO countries.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting \u200bby \u200cCharlotte Van Campenhout, \u200bediting by \u200bInti Landauro)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tue, May 19, 2026 at 2:50 PM UTC FILE PHOTO: Ships and boats in the Strait of Hormuz,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[13456,102,1486,25993,41570,101],"class_list":["post-121880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-alexus-grynkewich","tag-hormuz","tag-nato","tag-nato-countries","tag-political-decision","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116603062180154289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}