Trump calls Nato allies ‘cowards’ for not helping in strait of Hormuz; US officials say more troops heading to Middle East – live
"US president says ‘Nato is a paper tiger’, as officials tell Reuters news agency that more troops will be heading to the Gulf
Trump calls Nato members 'cowards' for not helping secure the strait of Hormuz
US President Donald Trump has lashed out at Nato again, condemning alliance members for not wanting “to help open” the strait of Hormuz.
Iran has effectively closed the strait with periodic attacks on oil tankers and other shipping.
About a fifth of seaborne crude oil traffic passed through the strait before the US-Israeli war on Iran, and a huge fall in exports has helped push prices above $100 a barrel.
Trump has criticised Nato members for failing to offer warships to help patrol the strategic waterway. In the social media post, he said:
Without the U.S.A., NATO IS A PAPER TIGER! They didn’t want to join the fight to stop a Nuclear Powered Iran. Now that fight is Militarily WON, with very little danger for them, they complain about the high oil prices they are forced to pay, but don’t want to help open the Strait of Hormuz, a simple military maneuver that is the single reason for the high oil prices. So easy for them to do, with so little risk. COWARDS, and we will REMEMBER!
Trump has said some countries are willing to help escort ships through the strait, but hasn’t named them.
Iran's Khamenei says enemy 'defeated' in written Nowruz message
Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Friday said the enemies of the Islamic republic were being defeated in the war against the US and Israel in a written message for the Persian New Year, Nowruz.
“At the moment, due to the particular unity that has been created between you our compatriots – despite all the differences in religious, intellectual, cultural and political origins – the enemy has been defeated,” said Khamenei, who is yet to appear in public after being named to succeed his father Ali Khamenei who was killed in an airstrike at the a start of the war."
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