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EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas<\/a> said Tuesday the bloc could expand a naval mission it has in the Red Sea to cover the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, once the Iran war<\/a> ends.<\/p>\n

“Operation Aspides<\/a> already makes a crucial contribution in protecting shipping in the Red Sea but its activities could also be extended to the strait,” Kallas said after a meeting of European Union defence ministers.
You may follow our live coverage of the West Asia war here<\/a><\/p>\n

Kallas said that some countries were already promising to contribute more ships to the mission and that could help if the decision is taken to extend its scope.<\/p>\n

Reeling from Trump’s war on Iran and the global economic fallout, Europe has been scrambling to play a role to get shipping moving again once the conflict ends.<\/p>\n

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France and Britain have led talks on a potential naval effort in the region, with defence ministers from four dozen countries to hold a fresh round of discussions Tuesday.
EU defence ministers<\/a> in March initially rebuffed proposals to expand the Red Sea mission<\/a>.Also read: War on Iran about oil, not for wiping out civilisation: RSS General Secy Hosabale<\/a>
Negotiations between the United States and Iran to end the Middle East war and re-open the crucial waterway appear to have stalled.<\/p>\n

Iran’s blockade of the strait, through which about a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas usually passes, has pushed up global energy prices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The EU’s Aspides mission was launched in 2024 to help protect shipping in the Red Sea, another crucial Middle East waterway, from attacks by the Houthis in Yemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Tuesday the bloc could expand a naval mission it has in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[39711,39706,39709,22728,197,442,39707,39708,39710,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-68129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kaja-kallas","8":"tag-eu-defence-ministers","9":"tag-eu-naval-mission","10":"tag-global-energy-prices","11":"tag-international-shipping-routes","12":"tag-iran-war","13":"tag-kaja-kallas","14":"tag-operation-aspides","15":"tag-red-sea-mission","16":"tag-shipping-protection","17":"tag-strait-of-hormuz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116562985363352563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68129","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=68129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}