“We express our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait,” the countries said.

 More than 20 countries – including the UK, Germany, France, Japan and South Korea – have said they would contribute to efforts ensuring safe passage in the strait of Hormuz, condemning Iran’s closure of the vital waterway, a joint statement from the leaders of the countries said on Saturday. Meanwhile, Iran’s nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz came under attack by Israel and US on Saturday, the Tasnim news agency reported. Later, the state media of Iran said the country’s military has hit the fuel tanks at the Ben Gurion airport in Israel. Meanwhile, Indian, Asian refiners plan to resume buying Iranian oil after Washington temporarily lifted sanctions to ease an energy crunch caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran, Reuters reported.The Trump administration has been strategising ways to secure or extract Iran’s nuclear materials, CBS News reported quoting multiple sources. Iran reportedly possesses 450 kilograms of 60 per cent-enriched uranium. In contrast, last week when asked whether the US would move to seize the material, US President Donald Trump suggested it is not the White House’s top priority. Trump also turned down the proposal of his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to transfer the nuclear material to Moscow. Israeli military said it struck targets in Tehran, while several parts of the Iranian capital, the central city of Isfahan, and Karaj to its west its of Tehran, reported explosions on Saturday.