UK hosts summit on reopening Strait of Hormuz following Trump demand: ‘Take care of it’

The United Kingdom hosted a virtual summit Thursday with over three dozen countries seeking to establish a plan for reopening the Strait of Hormuz as a frustrated White House orders them to figure the issue out for themselves.

The evening before the meeting, President Donald Trump told allies that, since the American military has finished the “hard part” of “both militarily and economically” decimating Iran, “the countries of the world that do receive oil through the Hormuz Strait must take care of that passage.”

British Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper and her counterparts on Thursday focused on “diplomatic and international planning measures” to alleviate the “unsustainable increases that we have seen in oil prices and food prices hitting households and businesses in every corner of the world” caused by the strait’s closure.

(Graphic by Grace Hagerman / Washington Examiner)

The foreign minister lamented that “Iranian recklessness towards countries who were never