U.S. Struggles to Get Help from Europe As Iran Plans Military Moves with Russia, Seeks Support from China
By Tom O'Connor On 7/30/19 at 12:42 PM EDT
The United States has officially asked Germany to join the United Kingdom and France in a naval coalition designed to secure the strategic waters near the Persian Gulf amid tensions with Iran, which recently signed onto closer military cooperation with Russia.
A spokesperson for the U.S. embassy in Berlin said that President Donald Trump's administration has "formally asked Germany to join France and the U.K. to help secure the Straits of Hormuz and combat Iranian aggression" in remarks first carried Tuesday by Germany's Deutsche Presse-Agentur and confirmed by Reuters. They continued: "Members of the German government have been clear that freedom of navigation should be protected... Our question is, protected by whom?"
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