Trump Does It Again: More Allies Join Coalition for the Strait, and Iran Just Undercuts Itself

As we reported, Iran made a bad move to target the U.S./U.K. base on Diego Garcia with what were believed to be two, intermediate-range ballistic missiles.

The missiles didn't make it. One failed in flight, the other may have been intercepted by the U.S. But it showed why President Donald Trump was justifiably concerned about the Iranians' ballistic missile threats, before launching Operation Epic Fury, if they could potentially reach that distance.

This was a bad miscalculation by Iran, because it's just going to lend more evidence to what a threat they were, and still are.

All this isn't being missed by our allies, who had been slow to come around when Trump called upon them to help ensure shipping moved safely through the Strait of Hormuz. He put on some pressure, and six allies joined a coalition and put out a statement against Iran; in it, they said they would commit to working to ensure safety in the Strait. After a little more pressure from Trump, now 22 have joined.

The growing list, which includes NATO members, comes after President Donald Trump ripped NATO for acting like “cowards” Friday. The president said "they complain about the high oil prices they are forced to pay, but don’t want to help open the Strait of Hormuz."
The joint statement said, "We express our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait,” and, “We welcome the commitment of nations who are engaging in preparatory planning.”
The statement is attributed to the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Denmark, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Czechia, Romania, Bahrain, Lithuania, Australia and the United Arab Emirates.
“We condemn in the strongest terms recent attacks by Iran on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf, attacks on civilian infrastructure including oil and gas installations, and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces,” the statement also said.

So more and more nations are arraying against Iran.

Meanwhile, Iran has been undercutting itself by saying the Strait is open to vessels other than for U.S., Israel, and those attacking them. They had already been letting Indian vessels through, and they just announced that Japanese vessels would now be allowed through. Those are two of the main shippers through the Strait. So if you let them through, you release the pressure on the world oil market, which was one of the few cards that Iran had to play. That's after Japan had already signed on to the coalition statement about helping to secure the Strait.

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It sounds like Trump is doing all he can to push people to ensure the safety there before (and maybe so he doesn't have to put out or risk U.S. assets). With all this happening, it looks more like they will bring down any effective blockage of the Strait.

Editor's Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all.

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