Donald Trump’s new tantrum: We don’t need anyone’s help in Iran war

Donald Trump has lashed out at US allies after they rejected his call for help to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and protect global oil supplies.

The president described Nato’s refusal to come to his aid as a “foolish mistake”, before insisting: “We do not need the help of anyone!”

His outburst came as questions grew over how and when the chaotic war on Iran might end – concerns that yesterday prompted his key ally and counterterrorism chief Joe Kent to resign in protest, saying Tehran had posed no imminent threat to the US.

And European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas urged America and Israel to stop the war so “everybody saves face”, adding: “The problem with wars is that it’s easier to start than to stop them, and ​it always gets out of hand.”

Mr Trump has found himself increasingly isolated after several countries, including the UK, Germany and France, declined his request to deploy warships to the vital Hormuz shipping route through which around one-fifth of the world’s oil passes.

The waterway has remained mostly closed since Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces claimed to have taken “complete control” of it at the start of the war.

“The United States has been informed by most of our Nato ‘Allies’ that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East,” Mr Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

“This, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon.”

Hitting out at the Nato alliance as one-sided, Mr Trump said: “I always considered Nato, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one way street. We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need.”

The conflict between the US and Israel and Iran has destabilised the Middle East, drawn in multiple regional powers, and seen oil prices spike with the severe disruption to the world’s oil supply.

Ms Kallas said Europe had been trying to find a solution to the ongoing conflict.

“We have been consulting with ‌regional countries like the Gulf countries, Jordan, Egypt, whether we could also bring forward proposals for Iran, Israel and the US to get out of this situation so that everybody saves face,” she said.

“It would be in the interest of everybody if this war stops.”

Mr Trump has been under increasing pressure to resolve the conflict as the war enters its third week.

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