Also Read Donald Trump urges seven nations to deploy warships to protect Iran's Strait of Hormuz"This is not our war, we have not started it," he added. The conflict has nothing to do with NATO and Germany has no plans to be drawn into it, government spokesperson Stefan Kornelius said. “I think China should help too because China gets 90 per cent of its oil from the Straits,” Trump said. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke with Trump about reopening the strait and with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, constrained by her country’s war-renouncing constitution, said Tokyo has no plans to dispatch ships.

Source: The Telegraph March 16, 2026 13:19 UTC