UK gathers more than 30 countries to plot ways of reopening the Strait of Hormuz

(The Associated Press/Al Arabiya) Almost three dozen countries will meet Thursday in an effort to exert diplomatic and political pressure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route that has been choked off by the US-Israeli war against Iran. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the virtual meeting chaired by Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper “will assess all viable diplomatic and political measures we can take to restore freedom of navigation, guarantee the safety of trapped ships and seafarers and to resume the movement of vital commodities.”. Iranian attacks on commercial ships, and the threat of more, have halted nearly all traffic in the waterway that connects the Arab Gulf to the rest of the globe’s oceans, shutting a critical path for the world’s flow of oil and sending petroleum prices soaring. – UK gathers more than 30 countries to plot ways of reopening the Strait of Hormuz