Iranian tensions

[Olympia5776]

Freeze all Iranian assets in UK and if they don't return the tankers in 30 days when we are supposed to return theirs ,start selling the assets off to pay a daily charge on the vessels  and cargo.
opps them ,let's play by their rules.

[Migalot]

The MESDAR has been released.

They were given a "warning about observing of environmental regulations" before being released.

Probably mistook the Liberian flag for a US flag.

[Raeturbo]

About time we stopped pissing about with these pricks. They are not evolving fast enough!! No brains!  But watch out they have loads of subs!

[Varche]

I wonder who Michael Hunt will appoint as foreign secretary next week when he becomes p.m. Javid? Johnson? Hammond? Philip Schofield? Michael Portillo?

Maybe he will be p.m. and foreign secretary.

[Raeturbo]

Who the fu(is Michael hunt??

[Varche]

Laura Kuensberg will be glad it is Jeremy Hunt rather than Mike Hunt. My bad, it is Jeremy.

[Lizzie Zoom]

THis morning we have another British tanker being seized and taken to a Iranian military port:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49054586

[Kevin Wood]

Laura Kuensberg will be glad it is Jeremy Hunt rather than Mike Hunt. My bad, it is Jeremy.

That Freudian slip has been made by enough journalists now, I'm stating to think that there must be something behind it.

.. Whereas the other candidate is more straightforward - choose your definition from the list. I know which one I'm going with.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Johnson

[Varche]

where is Ferdinand de Lesseps when you need him? He would dig a canal in no time to bypass the dire Straits of Hormuz

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Laura Kuensberg will be glad it is Jeremy Hunt rather than Mike Hunt. My bad, it is Jeremy.

That Freudian slip has been made by enough journalists now, I'm stating to think that there must be something behind it.

.. Whereas the other candidate is more straightforward - choose your definition from the list. I know which one I'm going with.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Johnson

Afaik its always BBC journos who do it, and the most likely explanation is that they call him that all the time off camera, and so it just spills out sometimes when the cameras are rolling, or the mic is on.

[Raeturbo]

Phone call for...... probably happened in all of our locals

[BazaJT]

To rub it in[it seems]they've hoisted the Iranian flag on the British tanker they seized.As an aside a minister has now stated that the RN is too small to provide the protection necessary,took them long enough to figure that one out.

[Varche]

Back in time ( 1980s) we had something like 40 frigates and a dozen destroyers. Now it is something like 13 frigates and just a few destroyers. May e all not serviceable or action ready crewed

Still more than most countries but austerity pigeons coming home to roost. You cannot cut everything to the bone without consequences .

With a dozen or so British flagged ships using the Straits of Hormuz every day it is a serious situation which the Iranians have won the publicity coup side of things.

It will be very difficult for Britain to do the right thing and put a-stop to any more piracy. I wonder if the government took its eye off the ball . Too many other things going on like May leaving and either Hunt or Johnson coming in.

[STEMO]

To rub it in[it seems]they've hoisted the Iranian flag on the British tanker they seized.As an aside a minister has now stated that the RN is too small to provide the protection necessary,took them long enough to figure that one out.

If all of the crew are off the ship, send a small guided missile into the cargo and set the bastard on fire.

[Raeturbo]

It's empty. Still burn well though I should think