{"id":11740,"date":"2026-08-25T05:17:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/11740\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T05:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:17:36","slug":"nato-discuss-plan-to-support-navigation-freedom-in-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/11740\/","title":{"rendered":"Nato discuss plan to support navigation freedom in Strait of Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-905995\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NATO<\/a>&#8216;s top commander convened a videoconference earlier this week to facilitate possible contributions to support freedom of navigation in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-905955\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, his spokesperson told Reuters, adding that this is not a NATO mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cSupreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe hosted a meeting of interested Allies at the chief of defense level on Wednesday, 19 Aug 26, in order to facilitate their possible contributions to support freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz,&#8221; a spokesperson for the alliance&#8217;s top commander US Air Force General Alexus Grynkewich said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;To be clear, this is not a NATO mission. But given NATO\u2019s unique strengths in its ability to bring together Allies and understand the capabilities they bring to bear, it makes sense for NATO to facilitate in this way,&#8221; the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">NATO allies have sought to avoid direct involvement in the Iran conflict, instead focusing on plans outside the alliance to reopen the strait, which before February carried about a fifth of all traded oil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-906013\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-906201\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Britain<\/a> have led efforts to build a coalition among roughly a dozen countries to guarantee safe passage through the \u200bstrait once tensions ease or the conflict \u200bis resolved, though any long-term arrangement \u2060would ultimately require Iranian acquiescence.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NATO&#8216;s top commander convened a videoconference earlier this week to facilitate possible contributions to support freedom of navigation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1647,8,7,3372,187],"class_list":["post-11740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-britain","tag-france","tag-nato","tag-oil","tag-strait-of-hormuz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}