Qatar foreign minister calls for halt to ‘blackmail’ in Strait of Hormuz

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Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has said traffic in the Strait of Hormuz must go back to what it was prior to the US-Israeli war on Iran, with no party to the conflict “blackmailing” the other, Al Jazeera reports.

“The consequences of this war were grave, not only on the Gulf region but elsewhere in the world,” Sheikh Mohammed has told reporters at a press conference following high-level discussions in El Alamein, Egypt.

“We need the situation to go back to what it used to be before,” he says.

“We condemn any threats in this regard in any obstacles.”

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