has sent its nuclear-powered aircraft carrier<\/a> to the region, alongside a helicopter carrier and several frigates.<\/p>\nMeloni said she had expressed Italy\u2019s \u201cwillingness to make its naval units available,\u201d while Merz said Germany could contribute mine clearance and maritime intelligence capabilities to such a mission, but would need parliamentary support and a \u2033secure legal basis\u2033 such as a U.N. Security Council resolution.<\/p>\n
He said Germany, \u2033if possible, would also like to see the United States of America participate; we believe this would be desirable.\u2033<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a departure from Macron, who has said the mission will involve countries not involved in the conflict.<\/p>\n
Macron\u2019s office said roles for members of the coalition could include \u201cintelligence, mine-clearing capabilities, military escorts [and] communication procedures with coastal states.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sidharth Kaushal, a research fellow in sea power at the Royal United Services Institute think tank, said mine-clearing and creating a warning system for maritime threats were more likely roles for the coalition than warships escorting commercial tankers through the strait.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need huge numbers of vessels for that sort of thing, which nobody has,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Trump dismisses NATO as \u2018paper tiger\u2019<\/p>\n
Iran expert Ellie Geranmayeh, deputy head of the Middle East and North Africa program at the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank, said mine-clearing is an area where European countries and their partners could play a role.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey would be a better party to do this than the United States, because once you have U.S. military doing this and lingering on Iranian shores, it creates a potential arena for Iran and the U.S. to have miscalculations and get back into a sort of military tension,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The operation is partly a response to Trump, who has berated allies for failing to join the war. The president has called allies \u201ccowards,\u201d said NATO \u201cwasn\u2019t there when we needed them\u201d and telling Britain: \u201cYou don\u2019t even have a navy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kaushal said European countries were likely trying \u201cto demonstrate the ability to provide security in a way that\u2019s distinct from, if not completely separate from, the U.S. and which also demonstrates a capacity for independent action.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many states actually have spare capacity to offer to this is a pretty open question.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump appeared dismissive of European offers of help, though he referred to NATO rather than the Franco-British-led coalition.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow that the Hormuz Strait situation is over, I received a call from NATO asking if we would need some help. I TOLD THEM TO STAY AWAY, UNLESS THEY JUST WANT TO LOAD UP THEIR SHIPS WITH OIL,\u201d he posted on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were useless when needed, a Paper Tiger!\u201d<\/p>\n
Corbet and Lawless write for the Associated Press. Lawless reported from London. AP writer John Leicester in Paris contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The leaders of France and the U.K. on Friday welcomed the announcement by Iran and the U.S. that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[2231,2313,20869,3031,242,8650,34,247,5664,7595,17605,8366,7162,2317,175,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-30613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-emmanuel-macron","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-ceasefire","10":"tag-commercial-vessel","11":"tag-country","12":"tag-emmanuel-macron","13":"tag-friday","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-macron","16":"tag-maritime-security","17":"tag-nation","18":"tag-paris-meeting","19":"tag-part","20":"tag-starmer","21":"tag-strait","22":"tag-u-s","23":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116422402960704289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}