{"id":554677,"date":"2026-03-21T09:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554677\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T09:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:45:11","slug":"trump-slams-nato-allies-as-cowards-for-failing-to-help-open-strait-of-hormuz-iran-threatens-to-target-tourist-sites-worldwide-iran-attacks-gulf-energy-sites-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554677\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams NATO allies as \u2018cowards\u2019 for failing to help open Strait of Hormuz; Iran threatens to target tourist sites worldwide; Iran attacks Gulf energy sites,"},"content":{"rendered":"

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an end to Iran\u2019s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting the international body could help protect the waterway and be part of a plan to de-escalate the Iran war.<\/p>\n

South Korea also today joined a growing group of European countries, along with Japan, pushing for security to be returned to the strait in a bid to stabilise energy markets shaken by the war.<\/p>\n

\"UnitedUnited Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon.Getty Images<\/p>\n

In an interview with Politico<\/a>, Guterres said he had not spoken to US President Donald Trump since the start of the conflict, although he had spoken to others in the White House, and defended the UN\u2019s role in times of war. He said the UN would \u201clike to be useful\u201d and could manage any system for the strait that came from negotiation.<\/p>\n

He also welcomed Trump\u2019s new Board of Peace, set up to fund and deliver the basics of a Gaza reconstruction plan rebuilding Palestinian homes and infrastructure, in the devastating wake of Israel\u2019s recent war \u2013 though he branded the initiative a \u201cpersonal project\u201d of Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an objective there that was defined, approved by the Security Council, and we are co-operating actively with structures created by the Board of Peace,\u201d Guterres said. But he added that he saw no need for the board beyond that initial rebuilding in Gaza, and international law must be paramount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an end to Iran\u2019s closure of the Strait of Hormuz,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-554677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}