The UK, France and Germany have rejected Donald Trump’s demand for them to participate in a naval mission to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, despite his threat that doing so would mean “a very bad future” for Nato.
Europe’s three biggest military powers all said on Monday that they did not want to be drawn into direct conflict with Iran, even as they expressed concerns over the closure of the waterway critical to a fifth of global oil and gas supplies.
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the UK would “not be drawn into the wider war”, indicating that sending Royal Navy warships to the Gulf was not under consideration while the war was ongoing.
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