The U.S. has submitted its draft resolution to the UN Security Council, alongside Bahrain and our Gulf partners, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar, on reopening the Strait of Hormuz. “The draft resolution requires Iran to cease attacks, mining, and tolling,” the State Department said in a statement yesterday. “It demands that Iran disclose the number and location of the sea mines it has laid and cooperate with efforts to remove them, while also supporting the establishment of a humanitarian corridor.”
National Security Advisor/Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the draft resolution “a very modest request.”
“If you’re telling me that the international community and hundreds of countries cannot rally behind that, I don’t know what the utility of the UN system is, if it can’t even solve something as straightforward as that,” he said.
Rubio argued that it is in the interest of Russia and China “for that resolution to pass and for pressure to be brought on Iran, because it is in their interest not to see international waterways, including the straits of Hormuz, be closed down and cause economic chaos to dozens and dozens of countries around the world.”
