{"id":22106,"date":"2026-03-16T17:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/22106\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:52:11","slug":"no-eu-appetite-for-trump-demand-on-hormuz-help-as-israel-pounds-lebanon-euobserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/22106\/","title":{"rendered":"No EU appetite for Trump demand on Hormuz help, as Israel pounds Lebanon \u2013 EUobserver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erratic US leadership means no EU navies will be rushing to the Strait of Hormuz, as Spain also accused Israel of \u201csham[ing] humanity\u201d in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>So long as US president Donald Trump does <a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/206048\/stunned-sidelined-and-disunited-the-eu-response-to-iran-war\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/206048\/stunned-sidelined-and-disunited-the-eu-response-to-iran-war\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">not make clear his Iran war plan<\/a>, then Germany would not heed his call to help escort oil tankers through the strait, indicated German foreign minister Johann Wadephul in Brussels on Monday (16 March).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, we want to hear from Israel and the United States of America when they want to achieve their military goals in Iran \u2026 to include us into what they are doing there,\u201d Wadephul told press at a meeting with his 26 EU peers.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had specifically called for French help on Hormuz in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1ca6d121-760b-4ec5-b6ad-514fdaa94873\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/1ca6d121-760b-4ec5-b6ad-514fdaa94873\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with the Financial Times newspaper<\/a> at the weekend, while threatening \u201ca very bad future\u201d for Nato in general if allies refused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erratic US leadership means no EU navies will be rushing to the Strait of Hormuz, as Spain also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2756,10838,2762,10832,10841,2765,10835,10829,37,2760,2763,10827,10830,10833,10836,10839,2761,2764,10828,10831,10834,10837,10840],"class_list":{"0":"post-22106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-typedefinedterm","9":"tag-identifier24","10":"tag-identifier4293","11":"tag-identifier4308","12":"tag-identifier4313","13":"tag-identifier4328","14":"tag-identifier4491","15":"tag-identifier4502","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-nameiran","18":"tag-nameisrael","19":"tag-namelebanon","20":"tag-namerussia","21":"tag-nameturkey","22":"tag-nameukraine","23":"tag-nameus","24":"tag-termcodeiran","25":"tag-termcodeisrael","26":"tag-termcodelebanon","27":"tag-termcoderussia","28":"tag-termcodeturkey","29":"tag-termcodeukraine","30":"tag-termcodeus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116240131348084317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22106","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=22106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}