{"id":2330,"date":"2019-07-12T06:31:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T06:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2019-07-12T06:31:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T06:31:34","slug":"uk-doesnt-plan-to-escort-all-british-ships-through-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/uk-doesnt-plan-to-escort-all-british-ships-through-hormuz\/2330\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Doesn\u2019t Plan to Escort All British Ships Through Hormuz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) \u2013 Britain does not intend to escort every British-flagged merchant vessel through the Strait of Hormuz, a security source said on Thursday, after a Royal Navy warship had to stop three Iranian vessels from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/gcaptain.com\/britain-says-it-fended-off-iranian-attempt-to-block-tanker-in-strait-of-hormuz\/\">blocking the passage of a BP-operated tanker<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The source said London would be resolute in defending its maritime interests in the Gulf but it does not want to escalate the situation with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exactly a week after Britain&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/gcaptain.com\/seized-supertanker-grace-1-at-full-capacity-with-crude-gibraltar-says\/\">seized an Iranian tanker in Gibraltar<\/a>&nbsp;accused of violating sanctions on Syria, London said the British Heritage tanker operated by oil company BP&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/gcaptain.com\/britain-says-it-fended-off-iranian-attempt-to-block-tanker-in-strait-of-hormuz\/\">had been approached in the Strait<\/a>, the main outlet for Middle Eastern oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On any given day, about 15 to 30 large British-flagged ships travel through the Gulf, with up to three passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Britain has HMS Montrose and four mine countermeasure vessels in the Gulf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With tensions rising in the area, Britain raised its ship security level on Tuesday to 3 \u2013 critical \u2013 the highest category, for British-flagged ships in Iranian waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has dismissed as \u201cworthless\u201d the allegation that Iran had tried to block the ship. (writing by Kate Holton; editing by Stephen Addison)<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) \u2013 Britain does not intend to escort every British-flagged merchant vessel through the Strait of Hormuz, a security source said on Thursday, after a Royal Navy warship had to stop three Iranian vessels from&nbsp;blocking the passage of a BP-operated tanker. The source said London would be resolute in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,20],"tags":[413,377,412,240],"class_list":["post-2330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","category-news","tag-faulconbridge","tag-hormuz","tag-london","tag-reuters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/2331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}