Donald Trump is said to be working to build a coalition of countries that will attempt to reopen the strait of Hormuz.
The US president hopes to unveil the list later this week, Axios reported, citing four unnamed sources.
Over the weekend, Trump claimed that “many countries” would send warships to the region – before publicly urging a string of countries to do so. The response has been muted, my colleague Hannah Ellis-Petersen hs reported from Dubai.
A fifth of the world’s oil supply normally passes through the strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway on Iran’s southern coast. Iran’s effective closure of it in retaliation for US-Israel attacks has been catastrophic for global energy and trade flows, causing soaring global oil prices amid what’s been called “the largest oil supply disruption in history”.
