Iran forces threatened UK warship
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In a new video released yesterday, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer is heard telling a British warship not to interfere or put their 鈥渓ife in danger鈥 as the paramilitary force, using speedboats and a helicopter, seized a UK-flagged commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month.
The video includes a shot apparently filmed on the day of the July 19 incident from above the British warship Foxtrot 236 that was in the vicinity of the UK-flagged Stena Impero, showing the British navy unable to prevent Iran鈥檚 seizure of the ship in the critical waterway.
It also offers additional audio to that released by maritime security risk firm Dryad Global, which last week made public a portion of the exchange between the Foxtrot and the Iranian Guard during the incident.
The seizure of the Stena Impero further heightened tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, which lies between Iran and Oman. The narrow waterway is of critical importance to the world鈥檚 energy supplies because one-fifth of all global crude exports pass through the strait.
In the nearly two-minute video released by the Iranian Guard, an officer is heard telling the Foxtrot: 鈥淵ou are ordered to not interfere in my operation.鈥 The Iranian officer repeats: 鈥淵ou are required not to interfere in this issue.鈥
鈥淭his is British warship Foxtrot 236. I am in vicinity of the internationally recognized strait with a merchant vessel in my vicinity conducting transit passage,鈥 a British officer responds.
The Iranian officer is then heard saying: 鈥淒on鈥檛 put your life in danger.鈥 He is also heard telling the British warship that the British tanker is under Iranian control.
This latest video and audio comes just days after the UK dispatched an additional warship to the region to accompany British-flagged ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The HMS Duncan will join the frigate HMS Montrose in the Persian Gulf to defend freedom of navigation until a diplomatic resolution is found to secure the key waterway.
Britain has figured prominently in rising US tensions with Iran ever since British Royal Marines took part in the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar. Officials there initially said the July 4 seizure happened on orders from the US. The UK says the tanker was suspected of violating sanctions on oil shipments to Syria.
Iranian says the Stena Impero violated international maritime law by turning off its signaling and passing through the wrong channels.
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