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The intervention comes after Trump posted a fiery message on his Truth Social platform<\/a> on Sunday: \u201cTuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin\u2019 Strait, you crazy bastards, or you\u2019ll be living in Hell \u2013 JUST WATCH!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPraise be to Allah,\u201d the president added. Experts and lawyers have warned that international law prohibits the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Asked about the threats on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted that the U.S. \u201cwill always act within the confines of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Costa, who, along with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, leads the EU and represents it on the world stage, spoke with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, as well as the leaders of Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan in recent days.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe purpose of the phone calls was to advance the EU\u2019s call for de-escalation and maximum restraint, the protection of civilians and full respect of international law, as well as to help create space for diplomacy,\u201d said a senior EU official, granted anonymity to speak frankly about the diplomatic offensive.<\/p>\n

European nations have increasingly been the focus of Trump\u2019s ire as they double down on refusals to become involved in the conflict<\/a>, even as Iran\u2019s naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz sends global energy prices skyrocketing. Several EU nations have rejected requests to use American bases on their territory as a launchpad for attacks \u2014 a move Trump blasted online as \u201cVERY UNHELPFUL.\u201d<\/p>\n

The United Kingdom last week hosted a virtual meeting of 41 countries, including France, Germany and Canada, to agree on a shared position on reopening the Strait of Hormuz. According to a British statement<\/a>, those present backed a diplomatic push via the U.N. to end the war and rejected new Iranian demands for payments to secure safe passage.<\/p>\n

Iran is calling for vessels to pay tolls to transit the busy waterway, which links oil- and gas-exporting nations like Qatar and Saudi Arabia to the global market. According to shipping giant Lloyd\u2019s List Intelligence, 26 vessels have passed through the strait since March 13<\/a>, with some paying fees in Chinese yuan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The intervention comes after Trump posted a fiery message on his Truth Social platform on Sunday: \u201cTuesday will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6366,20232,949,177,989,38,154,375,382,537,694,34,37,207,49,179,213,650,5634,271,55,50,150,691,51,567,36,226,2679],"class_list":{"0":"post-54104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-antonio-costa","9":"tag-bridges","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-conflict","12":"tag-diplomacy","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-energy","15":"tag-energy-prices","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-germany","18":"tag-infrastructure","19":"tag-iran","20":"tag-israel","21":"tag-markets","22":"tag-middle-east","23":"tag-military","24":"tag-oil","25":"tag-pakistan","26":"tag-platforms","27":"tag-qatar","28":"tag-russia","29":"tag-saudi-arabia","30":"tag-shipping","31":"tag-united-kingdom","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","34":"tag-war","35":"tag-war-in-iran","36":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116357808939912480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54104","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=54104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}