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Бритты, когда-то покорители морей и открыватели земель, кажется начали вспоминать свою историю и знаменитые слова английского поэта «Правь, Британия, морями!» . И наконец-то решились начать наводить порядок там где они когда-то «правили морями».

The Isle of Man registered British Heritage tanker had been transiting the Persian Gulf and entering the narrow Strait of Hormuz, one of the most strategically important, crowded, and contested waterways on earth when it was ordered into Iranian waters. A Ministry of Defence spokesman Thursday said three Iranian vessels had been attempting to intercept the British tanker to make it comply.

HMS Montrose, a British frigate of the Type 23 class positioned itself between the tanker and the intercepting craft, and forced the Iranians to withdraw. A British government statement claims the warship issued verbal warnings, but U.S. news network CNN cited military contacts “with direct knowledge of the incident” which said the frigate trained its deck guns on the Iranian craft.