European leaders continued their talks on the Iran war on Friday, this time considering a future mission to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which saw President Trump announce the strategic waterway open as the group spoke in Paris.
Britain’s Sir Keir Starmer, France’s Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Fredrich Merz, and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni met in Paris on Friday to host a virtual conference with 50 countries discuss a theoretical future military deployment to the Persian Gulf to ensure freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic bottleneck through which a fifth of global seaborne oil is traded in normal times. Yet the wind was taken out of the mega-conference’s sails, somewhat, when U.S. President Donald Trump announced he’d already reopened the Strait while the conference was ongoing.
Starmer moved to recover the initiative after the meeting broke, saying “We welcome the announcement that was made during our meeting”, but
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