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The ships and crew will hold there and await further instructions about whether an international Hormuz mission will come to pass at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the U.S-Israeli war against Iran began in late February, European nations pledged to assign naval vessels to a multinational mission for securing shipping in the economically vital Strait of Hormuz, over which Iran claims control. A precondition for such a deployment, governments here said, was that the conflict would ebb to such a degree that none of their ships would come under fire in a war many here consider pointless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prospect of a \u201cpermissive environment\u201d is now deemed slim by Berlin, the Ministry of Defense announcement reads, as open hostilities have broken out again between Iran and the United States following a period of calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aside from the geopolitical aspect of the redeployment, there is also a more mundane rationale, Navy officials acknowledge: The two vessels\u2019 cooling systems, which rely on sea water, were not built for the high temperatures of the Gulf of Aden environs. The eastern Mediterranean will be a more suitable parking spot for the ships, constructed decades ago with operations in the North Atlantic and Germany-adjacent waters, the hope goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The redeployment of the Fulda and the Mosel has been \u201ccoordinated with international partners,\u201d the ministry statement reads, as the vessels await an opportunity to tag along with a beefy air-defense escort to make the journey to the Mediterranean. 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