{"id":2522,"date":"2026-04-25T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:12:00","slug":"german-warships-head-for-the-mediterranean-sea-with-the-straits-of-hormuz-as-their-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2522","title":{"rendered":"German warships head for the Mediterranean Sea with the Straits of Hormuz as their target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"413\" data-end=\"655\">Germany<\/a> is moving forward with the development of Germany Ships of the <strong data-start=\"461\" data-end=\"483\">Navy<\/strong> in the <strong data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"500\">Middle East<\/strong>, as part of planning for a possible mission to the <b>Hormuz Strait <\/b>with this information being disclosed by Defence Secretary <b>Boris Pistorius<\/b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"657\" data-end=\"870\">According to what he said in an interview with the Rheinische Post, a <strong data-start=\"747\" data-end=\"765\">narcade ship<\/strong> and a <strong data-start=\"782\" data-end=\"812\">command and supply ship<\/strong> are planned. He did not give a specific timetable for the departure.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"872\" data-end=\"1116\">Boris Pistorius stressed that a <strong data-start=\"981\" data-end=\"1012\">stable ceasefire<\/strong>, a legal basis under <strong data-start=\"1040\" data-end=\"1058\">international law<\/strong> and approval from the Bundestag were required for the deployment to proceed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1118\" data-end=\"1321\">He made special reference to the country&#8217;s capabilities in <strong data-start=\"1173\" data-end=\"1187\">narcotics<\/strong>, noting that <strong data-start=\"1208\" data-end=\"1220\">Germany<\/strong> has been a longstanding leader in this field within NATO.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1323\" data-end=\"1571\">For his part, Chancellor <b>Friedrich Murch<\/b> has said that Berlin is ready to participate in a <strong data-start=\"1459\" data-end=\"1480\">multi-national mission<\/strong> to secure the <strong data-start=\"1502\" data-end=\"1523\">Hormuz Strait<\/strong>, ideally with the assistance of the United States.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1573\" data-end=\"1763\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">He stressed that the country&#8217;s contribution would focus on protecting <strong data-start=\"1646\" data-end=\"1676\">freedom of navigation<\/strong>, through <strong data-start=\"1696\" data-end=\"1711\">naval operations<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1716\" data-end=\"1740\">marine surveillance<\/strong> in the wider region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany is moving to deploy naval vessels in the Mediterranean as part of planning for a possible deployment in the Strait of Hormuz &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}