US President Donald Trump has said that he has asked ‘about seven’ countries to join a coalition to police the Strait of Hormuz.

In a Sunday interview, he warned that NATO faces a “very bad” future if US allies fail to assist in securing the vital waterway currently blocked by Iran, which normally allows for 20 percent of the world’s oil to be shipped from the Persian Gulf.

None have responded to Trump’s request for assistance. While EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said that it’s in Europe’s “interest” to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, she added that “it is out of NATO’s area of action” and that “there are no NATO countries in the Strait of Hormuz.”

A German government spokesperson said this morning that “this war has nothing to do with NATO” and that “it is not NATO’s war.” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer mulled over “a viable collective plan,” while not saying anything concrete.

Meanwhile, global oil prices are trading above $100 per barrel, more than 40% higher than before the Iran War began, stoking fears of a deeper energy crisis.

Here are the latest developments:

• Israel has launched “limited and targeted ground operations” against Hezbollah strongholds in southern Lebanon, according to the IDF. RT's Steve Sweeny reports from a bombed school in the evacuation zone.

• “A missile falling on a civilian vehicle” in Abu Dhabi has reportedly killed one person while Dubai airport was closed after a drone struck an oil storage site. 

• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has responded to speculation that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is being treated in Moscow.

https://www.rt.com/news/635011-iran-us-israel-war-updates/

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