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Evening Standard
Politics
David Hughes

Iran holding world’s economy ‘hostage’ with Strait of Hormuz closure – Cooper

Iran “cannot hold the global economy hostage”, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said as she met counterparts including Marco Rubio from the US to discuss the Middle East crisis.

The foreign ministers from the G7 group of leading democracies were meeting after Donald Trump again delayed his threat of “energy plant destruction” in Iran over its effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

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