US asks China to stop Iran from closing Strait of Hormuz

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on China to prevent Iran from closing the Hormuz Strait, one of the most important transportation routes in the world.

His comments came after Iran’s state that the Press TV, managed by the state, approved the plan to close the Strait of Parliaments, but that the final decision had added the Supreme National Security Council.

Any outage of oil supply will have deep consequences for the global economy. In particular, China is the world’s largest Iranian oil receiver and has a close relationship with Tehran.

Oil prices increased after the US attack, and the price of criterion Brent crude oil reached the highest level in five months.

“I encourage the Chinese government in Beijing to call them on this issue, because they are greatly relying for the oil of Hormuz,” Marco Rubio said in an interview with Fox News on Sunday. He said.

“Them [close the Straits]… for them there will be economic suicide. And we protect the options to deal with it, but other countries should look at it. It would harm the economies of other countries much worse than ours. “

Approximately 20% of the oil in the world passes through the Hormuz Strait, which uses large oil and gas manufacturers in the Middle East to carry the waterway to carry energy from the region.

The attempt to disrupt the operations in the Bosphorus can send a rapid increase in global oil prices.

They have jumped to the highest levels since January, Brent Ham’s price is Sunday 23:22 GMT as of the barrel reached $ 78.89.

“The United States is now positioned in the region with an overwhelming defense stance in the region to prepare for any Iranian counter attack. However, the risk for oil prices may increase seriously,” Saul Kavonic said, MST. He said.

The cost of crude oil affects everything from the cost of filling your car to the price of food in the supermarket.

According to the data of the ship monitoring company Vortexa, China receives more oil, especially from other nations from Iran – oil imports from Iran exceed 1.8 million barrels a day last month.

Energy analyst Vandana Hari said Iran is “too little to win and too much to lose”.

Hari, BBC News, “Iran, the Gulf, oil and gas -producing neighbors to transform into enemies and disrupting traffic in the Bosphorus, the risk of calling the anger of China,” he said.

The US joined the conflict between Iran and Israel at the weekend, and President Donald Trump said that Washington “destroyed” Tehran’s key nuclear areas.

However, the UN’s nuclear guard dog, intensely reinforced Fordo underground nuclear area, saying that the damage to the damage is not clear how much damage to the strikes. Iran told Ford that only small damage.

Trump also warned Iran that they would face future attacks if they did not abandon their nuclear programs.

On Monday, Beijing said that the US attack has damaged Washington’s reliability and immediately called for a ceasefire.

According to a CCTV report operated by the state, China’s UN Ambassador Fu Cong said that all parties should “add fuel to the fire” and add fuel to fire. “

In a masterpiece, the Beijing State Newspaper Global Times said that joining Iran was “more complex and unstable” and pushed the conflict “to an uncontrollable state”.