Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during the National Defense Academy’s graduation ceremony in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Saturday. | BLOOMBERG
U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for Japan and others to send warships to the Hormuz Strait to help secure the safe passage of commercial vessels heaps pressure on Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi just days before she visits Washington for high-profile talks with Trump.
Trump on Saturday called for countries affected by Tehran’s de facto closure of the strait — a crucial artery for some 70% of Japanese oil imports — to send military vessels amid the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war against Iran.
“Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the U.K., and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated,” Trump wrote on social media. “In the meantime, the United States will be bombing the hell out of the shoreline, and continually shooting Iranian Boats and Ships out of the water.”
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