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UK joins US for security mission in Gulf
    2019-08-07  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

BRITAIN on Monday joined the United States in a maritime security mission in the Gulf to protect merchant vessels traveling through the Strait of Hormuz after Iran seized a British-flagged vessel.

British officials stressed that there was no change to London’s policy on Iran but joining the United States is the most significant non-Brexit foreign policy move to date of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s 12-day-old government.

Just two weeks ago, Britain was calling for a European-led naval mission. Now, it has joined what it said was a U.S.-led “international maritime security mission.”

No other countries are yet involved.

The U.S. Defense Department welcomed the British decision.

Tanker traffic through the Strait — through which a fifth of the world’s oil passes — has become the focus for a standoff between Iran and the United States, which has beefed up its military presence in the Gulf since May.

Last month, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized a British tanker, Stena Impero, near the Strait of Hormuz for alleged marine violations. That came two weeks after Britain seized an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar, accusing it of violating sanctions on Syria.

Britain has repeatedly ruled out any exchange.

The tanker dispute has tangled the United Kingdom in the diplomatic differences between the EU’s big powers — which want to preserve the Iran nuclear deal — and the United States which has pushed for a tougher policy on Iran.

“Our approach to Iran hasn’t changed,” British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said.

No other nations have signed up to the U.S. mission.

(SD-Agencies)

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