Nations Respond With Caution to Trump’s Call to Send Warships to Strait of Hormuz

President Trump has urged China, Britain, France, Japan and South Korea to send warships to help reopen the waterway, even though they were not involved in the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran.

By Ravi Mattu

Initiative may be slipping away from US and Israel as Middle East crisis deepens

There is little sign of imminent regime change in Iran as its blockade of strait of Hormuz shocks global economy Few doubt that in the first days of the new war in the Middle East, the initiative belonged to the US and its ally Israel. Now it seems less sure, however. Mohsen Rezaee, a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, on Sunday said “the end of the war is in our hands” and called for the withdrawal of Washington’s forces from the Gulf and compensation for all damage ca...

By Jason Burke in Jerusalem

South Korea ‘closely monitoring’ Trump call to send warships to Hormuz - The Straits Times

South Korea ‘closely monitoring’ Trump call to send warships to Hormuz  The Straits Times