The U.S. embassy in Berlin criticized a German politician opposed to sending ships to the Strait of Hormuz, while Iran touted newfound ties with Russia and sought more Chinese support.
The United States has officially asked Germany to join the United Kingdom and France in a naval coalition designed to secure the strategic waters near the Persian Gulf amid tensions with Iran, which recently signed onto closer military cooperation with Russia.
In response to these remarks, the U.S. embassy in Berlin on Tuesday tweeted:"Suggestion: the largest economy in #Europe could buy more ships? #Allies #NATO" Tehran has denied involvement in the incidents, but it would be in this same body of water—also called the Sea of Oman—as well as the nearby Indian Ocean that Iranian naval chief Read Admiral Hossein Khanzadi revealed Monday that his forces join their Russian counterparts for drills"expected to take place soon" in"the northern Indian Ocean, which flows into the Sea of Oman, the Strait of Hormuz and also the Persian Gulf.
Moscow and Tehran have coordinated in joint efforts that helped Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turn the tide against a rebel and jihadi uprising once widely supported by the U.S. and Arab allies of the Arabian Peninsula, but now mostly sponsored by Turkey, with whom Iran and Russia work as part of a trilateral dialogue to end the war. Though both the U.S.
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