U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday abandoned his call for Japan, NATO, South Korea and others to send warships to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, an abrupt about face less than a day before Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was to depart for a key summit in Washington with the American leader.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of the fact that we have had such Military Success, we no longer \u2018need,\u2019 or desire, the NATO Countries\u2019 assistance \u2014 WE NEVER DID! Likewise, Japan, Australia, or South Korea,\u201d Trump wrote on social media. \u201cIn fact, speaking as President of the United States of America, by far the Most Powerful Country Anywhere in the World, WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE!\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked Wednesday in parliament about Trump\u2019s social media post, Takaichi said she intends to engage in \u201cin-depth discussions\u201d with the president on the situation in Iran and across the globe.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday abandoned his call for Japan, NATO, South Korea and others to send…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[648,11769,38,102,34,49,9849,2667,101,683,9532],"class_list":["post-24406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-defense","tag-diet","tag-donald-trump","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-sanae-takaichi","tag-sdf","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-japan-relations"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116248042802024460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24406","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=24406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}