Deputy Prime Minister Miruță: “We are not in a position to send soldiers to the Strait of Hormuz”. What it says about Iran's threats
The Minister of Defense, Deputy Prime Minister Radu Miruţă stated, on B1 TV, that it has not yet been decided how Romania can contribute to ensuring stability in the area transited by oil tankers transporting crude oil from the Middle East, stressing that there is no question of Romania sending soldiers to get involved in the conflict in the Middle East.
“Romania has some limited options, compared to its capabilities. Romania has some experience acquired in demining, Romania has General Staff officers who can contribute with information and analyses, Romania has divers who are quite efficient and have proven this professionalism at great depth, Romania has access to a series of information, intelligence, which put together can create a clearer picture of the situations under discussion”, said Radu Miruță, quoted by News.ro.
There are a number of things that Romania, hypothetically, could do. That he will do one, that he will do two, that he will do none, that there will be a need for these things that Romania can do, will be decided after the discussions in which Romania will also take part
Radu Miruță, Minister of Defense
Radu Miruţă showed that there is no problem for Romania to send soldiers to the Middle East.
“We are not in a position to send soldiers to the Strait of Hormuz. We are in a situation where the President of Romania said that Romania is willing to sit at the table with the countries that consider that there is concern for what is happening in the Strait of Hormuz,” the minister said.
“I do not comment on the statements of an ambassador”
Also, Miruță said that the Government officials have no data according to which there is a threat to Romania from Iran. Miruţă's clarifications come in the context in which the Iranian ambassador in Sofia declared that “Romania should be careful not to become part” of the war in the Middle East.
“I am not commenting on the statements of an ambassador. I also read the news you refer to, there was a hypothesis in the situation where one of the countries uses its bases to attack Iran. We are not in this situation in Romania. The official information from Tehran was about legal and political consequences, not about military consequences,” said Radu Miruţă, on Monday evening, on B1 TV.
