{"id":64922,"date":"2026-04-13T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/64922\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:07:10","slug":"britain-wont-support-trumps-iran-blockade-says-starmer-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/64922\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain won\u2019t support Trump\u2019s Iran blockade, says Starmer \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not supporting the blockade,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Starmer confirmed Britain does have \u201cminesweeping capability,\u201d but declined to comment on \u201coperational matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Macron stopped short of spelling out his opposition to Trump\u2019s blockade in an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EmmanuelMacron\/status\/2043611299679002807?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">online post<\/a> Monday, instead warning the conflict in the Middle East must be resolved \u201cthrough diplomacy.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe mustn\u2019t spare any effort in order to quickly reach a strong and longterm resolution of the conflict in the Middle East through diplomacy,\u201d the French president wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He said he will co-host a conference of countries that want to take part \u201cin a peaceful multinational mission\u201d to restore freedom of navigation in the strait in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis mission [will be] strictly defensive and separate from the belligerents, and will be deployed as soon as the situation permits,\u201d Macron said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re not supporting the blockade,\u201d he said. Starmer confirmed Britain does have \u201cminesweeping capability,\u201d but declined to comment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[177,989,38,1143,34,688,1376,49,179,690,6476,5634,150,691,51,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-64922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-conflict","9":"tag-diplomacy","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-keir-starmer","14":"tag-macron","15":"tag-middle-east","16":"tag-military","17":"tag-missions","18":"tag-negotiations","19":"tag-platforms","20":"tag-shipping","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116396847655437756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64922","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=64922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}