UK Joins Allies in Urging Iran to Stop Attacks, Hormuz Gridlock
Tankers at the Khor Fakkan Container Terminal in the Sharjah Emirate, along the Strait of Hormuz.
Photographer: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP/Getty ImagesUK Prime Minister Keir Starmer joined counterparts in Japan, Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands in calling on Iran to stop attacks on energy sites and other civilian infrastructure and to end the shipping gridlock in the Strait of Hormuz.
“We call on Iran to cease immediately its threats, laying of mines, drone and missile attacks and other attempts to block the Strait to commercial shipping,” the leaders said on Thursday in a joint statement issued by Starmer’s office.