{"id":21335,"date":"2026-03-16T08:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/21335\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:10:07","slug":"live-updates-trump-calls-for-allies-to-help-reopen-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/21335\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump calls for allies to help reopen Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. President Donald Trump said that he has demanded<\/a> about seven countries send warships to keep the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> open, as Iranian strikes continued to rain down on Gulf countries early Monday.<\/p>\n

Trump said the U.S. is negotiating with countries heavily reliant on Middle East crude to join a coalition to police the waterway where about one-fifth of the world\u2019s traded oil normally flows, but declined to name them.<\/p>\n

Dubai International Airport \u2014 the world\u2019s busiest \u2014 has gradually resumed some flights after a drone struck a fuel tank, causing a fire. Authorities said it was quickly contained and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n

Iranian officials have recently accused the UAE of allowing its territory to be used for attacks against Iran.<\/p>\n

Major developments we\u2019re following:<\/p>\n

More missile and drone attacks are reported: Gulf Arab states including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain reported new missile or drone attacks<\/a> after Iran called for the evacuation of three major ports in the United Arab Emirates \u2014 the first time it has threatened a neighboring country\u2019s non-U.S. assets<\/a>.War\u2019s toll mounts across the region: The war has killed at least 1,300 people in Iran, at least 850 in Lebanon and 12 in Israel, according to officials in those countries. At least 13 U.S. military members have been killed, including six in a plane crash in Iraq<\/a> last week. In just 10 days, more than 800,000 people \u2014 nearly one out of every seven residents of Lebanon \u2014 have been displaced.Pope Leo XIV demands end to war on Iran<\/a>: Pope Leo XIV demanded a ceasefire in the Middle East on Sunday in his strongest comments to date<\/a>, directly addressing the leaders who launched the war in Iran. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump said that he has demanded about seven countries send warships to keep the Strait…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[160,102,196,37,101],"class_list":["post-21335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-hormuz","tag-iran-war","tag-israel","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116237842787799932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21335","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=21335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}