{"id":19652,"date":"2023-12-23T13:17:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T18:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.businessupturn.com\/?p=19652"},"modified":"2023-12-23T13:17:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T18:17:16","slug":"greece-to-join-u-s-led-coalition-to-protect-red-sea-shipping-from-yemens-houthis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/greece-to-join-u-s-led-coalition-to-protect-red-sea-shipping-from-yemens-houthis\/19652\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece to join U.S.-led coalition to protect Red Sea shipping from Yemen\u2019s Houthis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greece has agreed to send in warship to support a United States-led naval coalition in the Red Sea, becoming the latest country to join the alliance to counter threats from Yemen\u2019s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister Nikos Dendias announced the move in a televised address on Thursday, saying Greece, as a major shipping nation, has a \u201cfundamental interest\u201d while addressing the \u201cmassive threat\u201d to maritime transport.<\/p>\n<p>The naval task force, announced by the US on Tuesday, initially listed 10 member nations to help patrol the water to deter the Iran-aligned Houthis, who have attacked more than a dozen vessels, which they claim were linked to Israel amid its war with Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The Iran-backed group has claimed that they will halt the attacks only if Israel\u2019s crime in Gaza stop.<\/p>\n<p>The original members of the Red Sea task force, which has been named Operation Prosperity Guardian, include the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, Netherlands, Seychelles, Spain, and Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, as per the reports by Reuters, Denmark has also joined the coalition. Additionally, the European Union member states have also agreed to contribute through the European Naval Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece has agreed to send in warship to support a United States-led naval coalition in the Red Sea, becoming the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":19655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[5231,1395,5535],"class_list":["post-19652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-greece","tag-israel-war","tag-red-sea-attacks"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}