Gulf nations back a UN resolution authorizing “all necessary measures” to guarantee shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
“All necessary measures” is language used by the United Nations that includes military action.
At a UN Security Council meeting, the secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council says Iran’s retaliatory attacks on its neighbors has exceeded “all red lines.”
Jassim Albudaiwi also stresses that the six GCC nations must be included in any discussions or agreements with Iran on ensuring regional security.
Bahrain, the current UN Security Council president and a GCC member, has said it wants a vote Friday on a resolution calling on countries “to use all necessary means” to ensure international transit “in the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.”
It faces opposition from veto-wielding Russia and China.
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It amazes me back in the 1970's the late Shah warned us that Hormuz, the jugular vein of the west. In 1979 when trouble came first and foremost a plan drawn up to bypass the strait and the means to implement it in short order, pipelines, alternate ports, etc. Any interference by Iran or its proxies (presently Houthis and Hezbollah) tactical nukes used to eliminate the threat.
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