Tanker British Heritage now safely south after yesterdays reported incident with Iranian ships.

A Government spokesperson says three Iranian vessels "attempted to impede" the passage of a commercial vessel through the Strait of Hormuz adding HMS Montrose was forced to "issue verbal warnings" to the Iranian vessels which then turned away

A #British Govt Spox said, “Contrary to international law, 3 #Iran-ian vessels attempted to impede the passage of a commercial vessel, British Heritage, through the Strait of Hormuz. HMS Montrose was forced to position herself between the Iranian vessels…

“... and issue verbal warnings to the Iranian vessels, which then turned away. We are concerned by this action and continue to urge the Iranian authorities to de-escalate the situation in the region.”. #Iran

Iran: “If it didn’t succeed, just day we didn’t do it in the first place”. Or perhaps their getting technical here and suggesting they were just harassing the ship and not actually trying to stop it. We need the P-8 Poseidon video to clarify :) https://t.co/i08SK9TC0L

Five Iranian attack vessels unssucessfully tried to seize a U.K oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, but were then scattered after British frigate turned its guns on them. U.K now 2-0 up in Tanker Wars

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North Korea calls arrival of South Korea's F-35 jets "extremely dangerous action", says "no other choice but to develop and test the special armaments to completely destroy" them https://t.co/Pkm6wP9mPg

Will #Australia build its own private nuclear arsenal? https://t.co/1CqE8WrajN

Nearly all the F-15Es photographed arriving in the Middle East carried Dragon's Eye radar pods: https://t.co/8BeFc29sLr

NO! NO! Bad kitty! 🤣 https://t.co/QmXVA1Uuez

Nuclear safety costs in #Japan surge to staggering heights https://t.co/xOVBmmMQ1S

#FLASH: HMS Montrose reportedly had to place itself between the British Heritage and the IRGC boats. Three IRGC boats attempted to impede the passage of the tanker... According to a British government spokesperson.

IRGC: We will soon announce our response to the British detention of the oil tanker #Iran

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#UPDATE: Militant groups in #Gaza vow revenge against #Israel after a #Hamas member was killed earlier today by IDF fire

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#BREAKING: IDF releases statement acknowledging the #Hamas militant was mistakenly killed. The militant apparently neared the #Gaza border to remove 2 Palestinians who were tampering with the fence. IDF forces mis-identified him as an armed terrorist trying…

On Iran/Britain incident in Gulf: UK-flagged British Heritage tanker was lawfully passing through what happened to be disputed territorial waters near Abu Musa island in between Dubai and Iran when it was confronted last night UK-time by the three Iranian…

“It was going about its business as it is legally allowed to do,” a defence source said about British Heritage’s movements. The Iranian vessels tried to obstruct the tanker’s passage. “They were getting in the way, trying to make it change course,” the source…