{"id":22487,"date":"2026-03-16T23:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/22487\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T23:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:05:17","slug":"europe-rejects-trumps-demand-to-help-clean-up-hormuz-mess-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/22487\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe rejects Trump\u2019s demand to help clean up Hormuz mess \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I hope that we will treat one another with the necessary respect within the alliance,\u201d Merz added, in an apparent rebuke to Trump\u2019s grousing.<\/p>\n<p>Luxembourg&#8217;s Deputy Prime Minister Xavier Bettel went even further, stressing his country would not give in to &#8220;blackmail&#8221; from Washington. \u201cDon&#8217;t ask us\u201d to send troops, Bettel told reporters in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Not Europe&#8217;s war<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker on Monday reiterated Trump\u2019s call for allies to support the war in Iran, given they <a href=\"https:\/\/ecfr.eu\/article\/gimme-fuel-hold-the-fire-how-europe-can-safeguard-its-energy-security-against-gulf-shocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">import limited volumes of oil<\/a> from the Gulf region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately that security of the Strait of Hormuz is in their interest,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USAmbNATO\/status\/2033519449769205802?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">he said<\/a>. Trump \u201cis absolutely right to suggest that our allies need to come, need to help us and support our efforts,\u201d Whitaker added.<\/p>\n<p>The Strait of Hormuz, through which about one-fifth of the world\u2019s oil is transported, remains effectively closed due to Iran\u2019s threats to shipping, causing the price of a barrel of oil to surge past the $100 mark last week.<\/p>\n<p>Yet a full NATO mission in Iran remains improbable for now, according to four NATO diplomats who spoke to POLITICO, both because it\u2019s unlikely to receive the necessary unanimous backing from allies and since it would add little compared to the more rapid bilateral support allies could muster for the U.S. The diplomats were granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive security matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;I hope that we will treat one another with the necessary respect within the alliance,\u201d Merz added, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11163,177,648,38,154,1120,537,2038,34,37,6367,10607,49,179,690,213,3040,11164,443,150,1048,445,51,36,226,10656],"class_list":{"0":"post-22487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-boris-pistorius","9":"tag-conflict","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-energy","13":"tag-friedrich-merz","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-imports","16":"tag-iran","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-kaja-kallas","19":"tag-luxembourg","20":"tag-middle-east","21":"tag-military","22":"tag-missions","23":"tag-oil","24":"tag-rights","25":"tag-rixa-fursen","26":"tag-security","27":"tag-shipping","28":"tag-social-media","29":"tag-trade","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-war","32":"tag-war-in-iran","33":"tag-xavier-bettel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116241361949039906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22487","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=22487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}