President Donald Trump is demanding that U.S. allies commit to clearing up the mess his war with Iran has made of the Middle East and the global energy market.
The White House is leaning hard on partners in Europe to help safeguard oil transportation in the Strait of Hormuz, the vital trade corridor in the Persian Gulf through which roughly 20 percent of the world’s oil passes, and which the Iranian regime has otherwise shut down since the conflict began, Bloomberg reports.
Trump’s aides laid out the president’s demands during a NATO summit at the White House, a senior alliance official told the publication Wednesday. A coalition of roughly 40 countries, led by the U.K., had earlier pledged to help reopen the waterway once hostilities cease.
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