The US is co-drafting a new UN Security Council resolution with Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, to demand that Iran end its attacks on merchant vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and cease its attempts to impose tolls, Al Jazeera reports.
The latest resolution comes after last month’s efforts were dashed following the permanent members of the council, Russia and China, blocking a resolution that was aimed at protecting commercial shipping in the waterway.
But the US representative to the UN says that the new resolution will also call on Iran to stop laying sea mines and disclose their locations in the Strait.
He explains that the draft is a “narrower effort” than the previous failed resolution and is focused on tolls and mining.
