NATO Ministers to Meet Gulf States on Hormuz Mission

NATO foreign ministers were set to meet Gulf Arab counterparts in Ankara on Tuesday to address the stalled reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and a Franco-British proposal for a multinational maritime mission. The meeting is on the sidelines of the July 7-8 NATO summit and includes ministers from Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates after weeks of waterway tensions despite an interim U.S.-Iran peace deal. The reports tie the talks to the latest tanker strike east of Oman's Limah and to earlier accounts that Iran's Revolutionary Guards fired missiles at commercial ships. Belgium's foreign minister said Gulf stability and European security are linked, while Iran has repeatedly opposed a foreign military presence.