President Donald Trump’s frenemy Emmanuel Macron has taken a sly dig at his plans to pry open the Strait of Hormuz.
On Sunday, Trump announced a “humanitarian gesture” to guide neutral ships out of the narrow waterway that the U.S. has blockaded. He said the plan, dubbed “Project Freedom,” would begin on Monday morning Middle Eastern time. Tehran pushed back, saying that “any foreign armed force, especially the aggressive U.S. army, will be attacked if they attempt to approach and enter” the strategically important waterway.
Macron, too, jabbed at Trump’s latest plan to fix the issue he created himself. While he described the idea to reopen the waterway as “very good,” he pointed out that it is something that allies “have been asking for from the start.”
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