Britain Backs Trump On Iran, Deploys Royal Navy To Persian Gulf

Breitbart ^ | 1-5-2020 | Kurt Zindulka

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The United Kingdom defended the actions of the Trump administration in Iran, saying the United States is “entitled to defend itself” against Iranian aggression and deploying the Royal Navy to the Persian Gulf to protect shipping vessels flying the British flag.

The Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace, expressed support for America’s decision to take out Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qasem Soleimani, citing the violence committed in Iraq by Iran-backed militias.

“During the last few months U.S. forces in Iraq, who are based in Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi government, have been repeatedly attacked by Iranian-backed militia”, Wallace said, in comments reported by The Telegraph.

“General Soleimani has been at the heart of the use of proxies to undermine neighbouring sovereign nations and target Iran’s enemies. Under international law the United States is entitled to defend itself against those posing an imminent threat to their citizens”, the Defence Secretary concluded.

In response to escalating tensions after the death of Soleimani, the United Kingdom has deployed the Royal Navy to the Strait of Hormuz, to protect British shipping vessels in the Persian Gulf from retaliatory strikes from Iran.

Royal Navy warships have not patrolled the strait since November, when the navy had been protecting British ships after Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker, the Stena Impero, in July of last year. The ship was finally released by Iran in September.

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Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Dominic Raab, speaking today to the BBC, also defended the killing of Soleimani.

“My view is — and the operational assessment has been done by the Americans — is that there is a right of self-defence,” Raab said.

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[Widget Jr]

You are trusting Rouhani over Abe, because of a headline not supported by the content of the article?
What is this alleged mechanism to get around U.S. sanctions?

Seriously?

[SunkenCiv]

Iran is vowing "crushing revenge" against the U.S. after an airstrike killed its top military commander, General Qassem Soleimani. U.S. officials had been hinting at a move for some time. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports on the latest, and Michael Morell, CBS News' senior national security contributor and a former acting and deputy CIA director, joined "CBSN AM" to discuss.
Morell: Iran's Qassem Soleimani was an "evil genius" who "had a lot of American blood on his hands" | CBS News | Published on January 3, 2020

[GOPJ]

I hope Japan sends warships to protect their tankers as well.

That would be nice...

[Widget Jr]

This is a bit cartoonish (who wants to take a patriotic Russian communist sock puppet frog seriously?) but it does explain why Argentina can not take the Flaklands for at a decade, Argentina vs United Kingdom: Falklands War 2017
. Additionally, while the RN has grown smaller, all the existing RN ships are modern and has lessons learned from the Falklands. During the Falklands most of the RN was flat out obsolete and the new ships suffered from cost cutting. The current Type 23s and 45s are good ships.

[caww]

UK'S Sec. of State for Defence, Ben Wallace, expressed support for America’s decision to take out Qasem Soleimani...

[jmacusa]

Count me as someone who is not all that fond of the Brits. I find them to largely resentful and condescending to us.

[jmacusa]

Anti-aircraft guns? That is so last century.

[jmacusa]

Yeah. And maybe they can wake up the big lizard in Tokyo Bay, you know Ol’ Godzilla and ask him if he’d be so nice not to flatten Tokyo and instead go flatten Tehran.

[sjmjax]

Nice but is it capable of orbital flight?

[MeganC]

“Japan has warships?”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Maritime_Self-Defense_Force

50,800 personnel
154 ships
346 aircraft

[MeganC]

“Count me as someone who is not all that fond of the Brits. I find them to largely resentful and condescending to us.”

They find us to be revolting.

[BradyLS]

What can it transform into?

[jmacusa]

Exactly. But God Almighty do they come banging on our door when they need us. Two generations of my family damn near lost their lives, in 1918 and 1945 fighting to bail them out.

[MeganC]

And when the FEUrth Reich of the European Union declares war on the UK we’ll come help them again.

[jmacusa]

I hope to Heaven we say(in British accent) “Frightfully sorry old boy but we shant be coming this time’’.

[A Navy Vet]

Very pretty, but where do the fix-wing aircraft land? Or does it only use helos and vtols like F-35? Maybe with 2 launch runways, they alternate between launch and landing? And why do they have 4 old time 10"? guns on the front? Where's their defense systems, like a Phalanx or the Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM)? On the stern?

Also, how does the bridge see anything that low? Where is the flight control bridge? That little slot on the side that has such a limited view? Yeah, I get techno advances, but being an ex-Airdale on the flight deck, I know why the Air Boss has to have unobstructed views of all air operations. This is probably some graphic designers wet dream for a mock-up to put in his office.

[MSF BU]

I looked them up and it does appear that Italy has a more formidable navy if you discount the nuclear submarines. Certainly they are more powerful conventionally.

[metmom]

GOOD!

Someone there gets that they are not immune to muslim terror simply because they are not the US.

[Cronos]

All of the jihadi attacks on the UK have been done by Sunnis, mostly Wahabbis and inspired by the Saudis, carried out by Pakis