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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Athena Stavrou

Iran shouldn’t be allowed to ‘hijack’ Strait of Hormuz, Cooper warns

Yvette Cooper has admitted “a lot of work needs to be done” to successfully reopen the Strait of Hormuz, as she insisted Iran should not be allowed to introduce tolls on the key shipping route.

The foreign secretary warned “no country should be able to hijack” international shipping routes such as the Strait, as she urged the US and Iran to take negotiations forward amid an increasingly fragile ceasefire.

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