US ally pledges support for Trump's push to break Iran's grip on Hormuz: 'We are ready to contribute'

UNITED NATIONS — The Czech Republic is prepared to assistance support state of navigation successful the Strait of Hormuz and is aligning intimately with the Trump medication connected security, NATO and Israel, Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka told Fox News Digital during an exclusive interrogation astatine the United Nations successful New York.

Prague already had begun discussions astir contributing specialized capabilities to assistance unafraid the strategically captious waterway amid increasing tensions with Iran, Macinka said portion speaking astatine Security Council-related meetings astatine the U.N. 

"We are acceptable to lend to state of transition and the Hormuz trade," Macinka said. 

"We were among the archetypal countries that were acceptable to lend … We person nary navy, arsenic we are successful the mediate of Europe," helium explained, "But we person immoderate unsocial passive surveillance capabilities."

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Czech Republic Foreign Minister Petr Macinka arrives astatine the 135th Session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe astatine the Palace of the Republic successful Chisinau, Moldova, May 15, 2026. (Vladislav Culiomza/Reuters)

Macinka warned that Iran posed a planetary menace done what helium described arsenic 4 main "war tools": atomic proliferation, drones and ballistic missiles, planetary coercion and threats to the Strait of Hormuz. 

"Their atomic subject programme indispensable beryllium stopped," helium said. "It’s a planetary hazard and planetary threat."

The comments travel arsenic the Trump medication has accrued unit connected European allies to instrumentality a larger relation successful protecting planetary shipping routes amid Iranian threats tied to the Strait of Hormuz, 1 of the world’s astir captious lipid transit choke points. Roughly one-fifth of planetary lipid depletion passes done the constrictive waterway connecting the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea.

Speaking aft a gathering with overseas ministers successful Sweden Friday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio questioned the worth of hosting U.S. subject bases successful allied countries that aboriginal restrict American subject operations during wartime.

"One of the arguments I ever made was that these bases successful the portion provided america with logistical options that we wouldn’t different have," Rubio told reporters. "And erstwhile immoderate of those bases are denied to you during a struggle that we’re progressive in, past you question whether that worth is inactive there."

President Donald Trump besides has sharply criticized NATO allies implicit a reluctance to enactment successful subject operations tied to the Iran struggle and securing the Strait of Hormuz. 

Trump said helium was "strongly considering" pulling the United States retired of NATO aft allies failed to articulation the U.S. run against Iran, according to an April 1 interrogation with Britain’s Daily Telegraph, calling the confederation a "paper tiger."

Vessels of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps are seen during a ceremonial marking the National Persian Gulf Day astatine the Persian Gulf adjacent Bushehr, Iran, April 29, 2024. The National Persian Gulf Day marks the day of the expulsion of Portuguese subject forces from the Strait of Hormuz successful 1622. (Shadati/Xinhua via Getty Images)

The Czech Republic, a NATO subordinate since 1999, reached NATO’s benchmark of spending 2% of GDP connected defence and has supported calls for Europe to summation subject readiness amid Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine.

Macinka powerfully defended the administration’s calls for Europe to summation defence spending and trim dependence connected Washington for semipermanent information guarantees. 

"We should bash our homework and physique our defence to go stronger," helium said, arguing that Europe had delayed indispensable subject investments for excessively long.

He besides tied Europe’s defence spending challenges to the European Union’s Green Deal policies, the bloc’s sweeping clime docket aimed astatine reducing c emissions, calling them ideological and financially destructive. 

"If we get escaped of this green, brainsick alarmism, past we person capable wealth to physique our defense," helium said.

The Czech overseas curate besides voiced unusually nonstop enactment for Trump and his administration, praising what helium described arsenic a planetary "common sense" displacement pursuing Trump’s predetermination victory.

"We are friends of Israel, and we are friends of America," Macinka said. "Especially maine arsenic a politician, I'm a person of the ideology of the existent American administration."

Macinka besides referenced a clash earlier successful 2026 with erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton astatine the Munich Security Conference, wherever helium criticized Europe’s wide governmental constitution and defended the populist question reshaping parts of Europe and the United States.

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A tanker sits astatine the Port of Fujairah, arsenic the U.S.-Israel struggle with Iran limits marine postulation successful the Strait of Hormuz. (REUTERS / Amr Alfiky / File Photo)

Macinka linked Prague’s beardown enactment for Ukraine to the Soviet-led penetration of Czechoslovakia successful 1968, erstwhile hundreds of thousands of Warsaw Pact troops occupied the state for much than 2 decades.

He said that humanities acquisition continues to signifier Czech nationalist sentiment and enactment for Kyiv.

"The Czech nine feels a large solidarity with Ukraine," Macinka said, describing the warfare arsenic a "symmetric war" betwixt a almighty Russian subject and a Ukrainian service backed by the West.

Macinka highlighted Prague’s starring relation successful a Czech-backed ammunition inaugural supplying Ukraine with artillery rounds collected done planetary donor efforts. 

Recalling a sojourn to Kyiv earlier successful 2026, helium said helium received quality briefings connected battlefield ammunition depletion from Ukrainian subject officials.

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Naval units from Iran and Russia simulate the rescue of a hijacked vas during associated drills astatine the Port of Bandar Abbas successful Hormozgan, Iran, connected Feb. 19, 2026. (Iranian Army/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The Czech inaugural delivered much than fractional a cardinal rounds of ammunition successful 2026 alone, according to Macinka, helping stabilize the battlefield up of imaginable bid negotiations.

Macinka argued that maintaining a unchangeable beforehand is indispensable for meaningful negotiations, informing that shifting conflict lines volition lone harden demands connected some sides.

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Newly recruited soldiers of Ukraine's 159th Separate Mechanized Brigade enactment successful integration and precocious grooming exercises successful Kharkiv Oblast connected May 14, 2026, aft completing basal subject training. (Yevhen Titov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

With Washington progressively focused connected the Middle East, Macinka besides said Europe indispensable statesman taking a larger diplomatic relation successful aboriginal negotiations implicit Ukraine.

"America is rather engaged with the Middle East," helium said. "Europe should aftermath up and inquire for a spot astatine the table."