UK and Japan among countries that are considering options but yet to commit warships to blockaded shipping route

Countries including the UK, Japan, China and South Korea have said they are still considering their options but without making commitments after the US president, Donald Trump, urged them to send warships to the strait of Hormuz to secure the vital shipping route.

The effective closure of the strait of Hormuz by Tehran, in retaliation for airstrikes by the US and Israel, has proved catastrophic for global energy and trade flows, causing the largest oil supply disruption in history and soaring global oil prices.

However, the international response to Trump’s call for the dispatch of warships has so far proved vague and reluctant, with countries unwilling to commit to a military response that could prove treacherous for their navies.

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    7 hours ago

    the us just constantly violates ceasefires and agreements anyway, and have been like this for many decades.

    it makes no sense to make a deal with them expecting anything other than buying time until they are inevitably backstabbed.

    iran itself refrained from nukes with the agreement that it would be left alone by the empire lmao