{"id":56333,"date":"2026-04-08T11:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=56333"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:57:28","slug":"trump-meets-nato-chief-as-iran-war-strains-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=56333","title":{"rendered":"Trump meets NATO chief as Iran war strains alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Reuters) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WASHINGTON\/BRUSSELS, April 8 – President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0welcomes NATO chief Mark Rutte to the White House on Wednesday, as the war with Iran has pushed U.S. relations with other \u200bmembers of the military alliance to a crisis point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Republican president has threatened to withdraw from the 32-member transatlantic alliance and denounced Washington’s \u200cEuropean allies in recent weeks for what he said was inadequate support for the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign in Iran. Trump said on Tuesday the attacks would be paused<\/a> after the two sides agreed to a two-week ceasefire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has called for countries that depend on oil from the Gulf region to break Iran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, but European countries are unlikely to join \u200bmine-clearing or other missions to free up navigation as long as hostilities continue, according to two European diplomats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran has vowed to obstruct the vital chokepoint \u200bwith mines until the war ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Reuters) WASHINGTON\/BRUSSELS, April 8 – President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0welcomes NATO chief Mark Rutte to the White House on Wednesday, as the war with Iran has pushed U.S. relations with other \u200bmembers of the military alliance to a crisis point. The Republican president has threatened to withdraw from the 32-member transatlantic alliance and denounced Washington’s \u200cEuropean allies in recent weeks for what he said was inadequate support for the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign in Iran. Trump said on Tuesday the attacks would be paused after the two sides agreed to a two-week ceasefire. Trump has called for countries that depend on oil from the Gulf region… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56335,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56333\/revisions\/56335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}