Iranian boats attempted to seize British tanker in the Gulf
Thursday 11/July/2019 - 02:08 PM
Five boats believed to belong to Iranian
Revolutionary Guards approached a British oil tanker in the Gulf on Wednesday
and asked it to stop in Iranian waters close by, but withdrew after a British
warship warned them over radio, a US defense official said.
Britain said that three Iranian vessels
unsuccessfully tried to impede the passage of a British commercial vessel
through the Strait of Hormuz.
The British government said in a statement Thursday
that the Iranian vessels only turned away after receiving “verbal warnings”
from a UK navy vessel accompanying the commercial vessel British Heritage.
