The British Foreign Minister, Yvette Cooper, managed to bring together representatives from nearly 40 countries this Thursday electronically and independently of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to study the reopening of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s crude oil circulates. Nearly 2,000 ships remain trapped in the area due to Iran’s blockade, and nearly 2,000 sailors remain detained. In parallel, the Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katz, has threatened Hezbollah and its leader, Naim Qassem, that “they will pay a very high price” for attacking northern Israel with a barrage of 100 projectiles in the middle of the Jewish Passover celebration. Tehran has launched a new wave of missiles against Israel after Trump claimed that Tehran’s military capabilities have been “decimated.” Trump gave a message to the nation about the war on Wednesday night, his first since the conflict began more than a month ago. For 19 minutes he defined Iran as a latent threat to global security, the “first state sponsor of terrorism” and a “murderous regime.”
