{"id":574521,"date":"2026-04-09T20:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574521\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:12:09","slug":"trump-vented-at-rutte-over-nato-inaction-on-iran-during-turbulent-meeting-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/574521\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump vented at Rutte over NATO inaction on Iran during turbulent meeting \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, NATO countries at the alliance\u2019s Brussels headquarters have not been briefed on the meeting, according to two senior alliance diplomats, nor have they begun discussing the deployment of military equipment to reopen the strait.<\/p>\n<p>Standing ready<\/p>\n<p>U.S. allies have repeatedly pledged to help restart shipping along the Strait of Hormuz trade chokepoint \u2014 but only once the fighting fully stops.<\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday said he had \u201cencouraged\u201d Trump to \u201cpursue the negotiations in earnest\u201d on ending the war with Iran during a call with the president on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, I assured him that, following a peace agreement, Germany will help ensure freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, provided there is a mandate and a viable plan for doing so,\u201d he told reporters.\u00a0\u201cWe do not want this war \u2014 which has become a transatlantic stress test \u2014 to further strain relations between the United States and its European NATO partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, France\u2019s top military commander, Gen. Fabien Mandon, similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CEMA_FR\/status\/2041949712228741464?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> Paris was looking at \u201cstrictly defensive\u201d military options to assist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the past week, we have been hosting officers from various nations who have chosen to participate in this initiative aimed at helping to restore maritime navigation,\u201d he said. \u201cThe planning phase is moving forward, with the shared goal of promoting the safety of maritime navigation in this strategic area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So far, NATO countries at the alliance\u2019s Brussels headquarters have not been briefed on the meeting, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1127,7522,252718,6052,12,594,10991,6797,7261,801,252719,8654,129,4379,3,3662,1049,21,19,22,20,25,24,1139,227793],"class_list":{"0":"post-574521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-conflict","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-dan-bloom","12":"tag-defense","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-friedrich-merz","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-greenland","18":"tag-iran","19":"tag-john-healey","20":"tag-mark-rutte","21":"tag-middle-east","22":"tag-military","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-spain","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-united-states-of-america","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-usa","32":"tag-war","33":"tag-war-in-iran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}