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Iran Guards say they have confiscated a British tanker in Strait of Hormuz
Daily Mail ^ | Darren Boyle

Posted on 07/19/2019 11:20:51 AM PDT by avg_freeper

Iran has seized a British-registered oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; brexitparty; djibouti; eritrea; hassannasrallah; hezbollah; iran; lebanon; nigelfarage; sudan; unitedkingdom; yemen
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1 posted on 07/19/2019 11:20:51 AM PDT by avg_freeper
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To: avg_freeper

Here we go?


2 posted on 07/19/2019 11:22:16 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: avg_freeper

Sounds like the uk has a problem.


3 posted on 07/19/2019 11:22:42 AM PDT by JoSixChip (Trump stands alone.)
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To: avg_freeper

Reports now saying 23 crew on board and they have been imprisoned.


4 posted on 07/19/2019 11:23:18 AM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: avg_freeper
The Brits have lost another tanker?


5 posted on 07/19/2019 11:24:19 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: avg_freeper
The Stena Impero oil tanker has been seized by Iranian authorities while passing through the Strait of Hormuz this evening
6 posted on 07/19/2019 11:24:27 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (expect nothing)
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To: JoSixChip

Ditto that!


7 posted on 07/19/2019 11:24:56 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( Be kind to your children. They will determine where you live when you get old.)
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To: JoSixChip

Sounds like the uk has a problem.
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They, along with others who use the strait, need to dispatch warships to protect their interests.


8 posted on 07/19/2019 11:25:05 AM PDT by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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To: avg_freeper

The Brits have 3 DDs over there... where the he77 was it’s escort ????


9 posted on 07/19/2019 11:26:41 AM PDT by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and evet n the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: avg_freeper

Nothing will happen to Iran. The Western nations are in total freeze and haven’t an idea what to do.


10 posted on 07/19/2019 11:26:57 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: avg_freeper

Watch Sky News live
https://youtu.be/siyW0GOBtbo


11 posted on 07/19/2019 11:28:09 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Congratulations to the USWNT on winning the World Cup! America is proud of you all!- President Trump)
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To: JoSixChip

Ditto that


12 posted on 07/19/2019 11:28:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: chief lee runamok

Built in 2018.


13 posted on 07/19/2019 11:29:15 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Congratulations to the USWNT on winning the World Cup! America is proud of you all!- President Trump)
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To: Pearls Before Swine; null and void; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal; metmom; Mom MD; captmar-vell; ...

[Here we go?]

The Mullahs are getting desperate, I’d guess.


14 posted on 07/19/2019 11:29:29 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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..... Iran knows that with the Islamic colonization of the UK and Europe with millions of Muslim zealots and operatives over the past few years, that it will now be very difficult for the UK and European Nations to militarily respond to anything that it does without having to face serious blowback and repercussions at home.


15 posted on 07/19/2019 11:30:16 AM PDT by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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Time to deploy that new UK carrier?


16 posted on 07/19/2019 11:30:40 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....ew)
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To: Robe

“The Brits have 3 DDs over there... where the he77 was it’s escort ????”

Wow. Wonder what the British Ambassador to the US has to say about this? Oh wait......


17 posted on 07/19/2019 11:31:22 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump is President and CEO of America, Inc.)
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18 posted on 07/19/2019 11:31:23 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: SaveFerris

Better ask Nancy and Chuckie what to do?/S


19 posted on 07/19/2019 11:31:27 AM PDT by mplc51
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To: Logical me

FWIW (not much, I’m sure) aren’t NATO member nations obligated to come to their defense?


20 posted on 07/19/2019 11:31:53 AM PDT by daler
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