{"id":69400,"date":"2026-04-17T04:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/69400\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T04:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:50:09","slug":"europe-tests-third-way-on-hormuz-without-the-us-israel-and-iran-will-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/69400\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe tests \u2018third way\u2019 on Hormuz without the US, Israel and Iran. Will it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neither the United States nor Israel or Iran have been invited to the first major European push to influence a war that was launched six weeks ago by a US-Israeli bombardment on Iran<\/a>.Europe insists it is not a party to the war, but as energy prices soar and munitions get diverted from Ukraine<\/a> it is already paying the price.<\/p>\n

China is among the Asian nations to have been invited \u2013 demarched by both Paris and London, it is understood \u2013 although it was unclear at what level it would attend, if at all.<\/p>\n

Definitely on the guest list is a smattering of European leaders including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and a host of Gulf and Asian states with a shared interest in restoring shipping through the strait.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe idea of the summit is said to go back more than a month to when French President Emmanuel Macron visited Cyprus. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we will want to do with our partners from Europe, Asia, the Indo-Pacific, Latin America, Africa, is in essence to bring together in order to build a credible proposal which is in essence that of a third way,\u201d said an Elysee official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neither the United States nor Israel or Iran have been invited to the first major European push to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[536,5328,262,388,38,25921,54,382,537,102,34,37,1486,11166,101,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-69400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-strait-of-hormuz","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-cyprus","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-elysee","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-hormuz","18":"tag-iran","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-nato","21":"tag-paris","22":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","23":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116418250257748033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69400","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=69400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}