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What did British politicians and officials think had given the go-ahead for the seizure of the Iranian tanker Grace 1 off Gibraltar on July 4th? Did they really think that the Iranians would not take revenge for what they see as a serious escalation of the American economic war against them?
The British cover article that the shipment of 30 Royal Marines by helicopter to take the mothership was entirely related to the application of EU sanctions to Syria, and nothing to see with US sanctions to Iran, was still pretty thin.
Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell has categorically stated that Britain has taken over the tanker "following a request from the United States to the United Kingdom".
We will tell you what is true. You can form your own view.
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A fact about Iranian foreign policy should have been written in the brains of every politician and diplomat in Britain, as is already happening in the Middle East, namely that what you will do to the Iranians, they will do it to a time and place such as their own choice.
The United States and the United Kingdom supported Saddam Hussein during his invasion of Iran in 1980, but this was not disconnected – though it is impossible to prove – with the following. suicide bombing that killed 241 members of the US Armed Forces in the naval barracks in Beirut in 1983.
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A Syrian tank returned to Hermon Creek in Banias Nature Reserve, at the western end of the Golan Heights occupied by Israel. Israel captured the area, an old demilitarized zone, during the Six Day War of 1967
Reuters
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Part of the trench of an old Jordanian military post called Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem. Originally built by the British, the site was captured by Jordan during the 1948-1949 war and held by it until Israeli troops captured it in 1967.
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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An abandoned mosque on a rainy morning in the Golan Heights, in a territory Israel captured in Syria and occupied during the Middle East war of 1967. Until 1967, a Syrian village inhabited by Circbadians was located near the site, located just 5 km from the Israeli side of the United Nations-supervised "separation zone" and dividing the Israeli and Syrian military forces under a cease-fire agreement. 1974
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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The broken helicopter of Palestinian Authority President Ybader Arafat, who died recently, sits at the top of a structure in Gaza City. Without its main rotor, it is now exposed to the public in the coastal enclave that is now controlled by the most powerful national rival of the Palestinian Authority, Hamas.
Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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A warning sign on anti-personnel mines on a fence in the Golan Heights. Many Israeli and foreign tourists pbad by the site to go to popular vacation spots
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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Part of an abandoned Syrian building on the Golan Heights. Former headquarters of the army, it is one of many Syrian buildings left abandoned since the beginning of the wars half a century ago.
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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Wall of a structure in a former Syrian outpost on the Golan Heights occupied by Israel. In stark contrast to the beauty of the surrounding countryside, it now collapses and is covered in graffiti, an Arab message stating: "The Syrian Army has been there."
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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Buildings built during the era of the British Mandate to serve as prisons and fortified posts in the village of Al-Jiftlik, near Jericho, in the occupied West Bank of Israel. Long abandoned, sheep now roam in empty buildings, in search of vegetation in the scorching heat of the Jordan Valley. The Israeli army sometimes uses them to train, say Palestinian residents
Reuters / Mohamad Torokman
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A bunker on the Golan Heights, on a territory that Israel captured to Syria. It has been used for military purposes and has been deserted for many years.
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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British soldiers depicted in a mural on an old pill box in Jerusalem. The pill box dating from the era of the British occupation before 1948 is abandoned in a busy intersection of Jerusalem. The mural has been added in recent years
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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One sees concrete anti-blast walls in an open area formerly used by the Israeli army near Rahat in southern Israel. Formerly part of a training center in urban warfare, barriers are now an isolated scar on the landscape
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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Part of a trench is seen in an old Jordanian military post called Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem. Originally built by the British, the site was captured by Jordan during the 1948-1949 war and held by it until Israeli troops captured it in 1967.
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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The abandoned remains of the Gaza International Airport in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. Former US President Bill Clinton attended the opening ceremony in 1998. But Israeli air raids and bulldozers interrupted him during the second Palestinian uprising, or Intifada, a few months after the attacks. September 11, 2001 against the United States.
Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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We see a house in Lifta, a ruined Palestinian Arab village whose inhabitants left or were forced to leave their homes in the conflict that accompanied the end of British rule and the founding of Israel in 1948. The ruins Abandoned are visible to travelers arriving at the west entrance of Jerusalem
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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An abandoned mosque on a rainy morning in the Golan Heights, in a territory captured by Israel from Syria
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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Part of a structure in a former Jordanian military base near the Dead Sea in the occupied West Bank of Israel. The building is a scar in the landscape because it has been deserted since the 1967 war in the Middle East, when Israel conquered the region to the Jordanians.
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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A Syrian tank returned to Hermon Creek in Banias Nature Reserve, at the western end of the Golan Heights occupied by Israel. Israel captured the area, an old demilitarized zone, during the Six Day War of 1967
Reuters
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Part of the trench of an old Jordanian military post called Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem. Originally built by the British, the site was captured by Jordan during the 1948-1949 war and held by it until Israeli troops captured it in 1967.
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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An abandoned mosque on a rainy morning in the Golan Heights, in a territory Israel captured in Syria and occupied during the Middle East war of 1967. Until 1967, a Syrian village inhabited by Circbadians was located near the site, located just 5 km from the Israeli side of the United Nations-supervised "separation zone" and dividing the Israeli and Syrian military forces under a cease-fire agreement. 1974
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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The broken helicopter of Palestinian Authority President Ybader Arafat, who died recently, sits at the top of a structure in Gaza City. Without its main rotor, it is now exposed to the public in the coastal enclave that is now controlled by the most powerful national rival of the Palestinian Authority, Hamas.
Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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A warning sign on anti-personnel mines on a fence in the Golan Heights. Many Israeli and foreign tourists pbad by the site to go to popular vacation spots
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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Part of an abandoned Syrian building on the Golan Heights. Former headquarters of the army, it is one of many Syrian buildings left abandoned since the beginning of the wars half a century ago.
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
7/16
Wall of a structure in a former Syrian outpost on the Golan Heights occupied by Israel. In stark contrast to the beauty of the surrounding countryside, it now collapses and is covered in graffiti, an Arab message stating: "The Syrian Army has been there."
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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Buildings built during the era of the British Mandate to serve as prisons and fortified posts in the village of Al-Jiftlik, near Jericho, in the occupied West Bank of Israel. Long abandoned, sheep now roam in empty buildings, in search of vegetation in the scorching heat of the Jordan Valley. The Israeli army sometimes uses them to train, say Palestinian residents
Reuters / Mohamad Torokman
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A bunker on the Golan Heights, on a territory that Israel captured to Syria. It has been used for military purposes and has been deserted for many years.
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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British soldiers depicted in a mural on an old pill box in Jerusalem. The pill box dating from the era of the British occupation before 1948 is abandoned in a busy intersection of Jerusalem. The mural has been added in recent years
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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One sees concrete anti-blast walls in an open area formerly used by the Israeli army near Rahat in southern Israel. Formerly part of a training center in urban warfare, barriers are now an isolated scar on the landscape
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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Part of a trench is seen in an old Jordanian military post called Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem. Originally built by the British, the site was captured by Jordan during the 1948-1949 war and held by it until Israeli troops captured it in 1967.
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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The abandoned remains of the Gaza International Airport in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. Former US President Bill Clinton attended the opening ceremony in 1998. But Israeli air raids and bulldozers interrupted him during the second Palestinian uprising, or Intifada, a few months after the attacks. September 11, 2001 against the United States.
Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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We see a house in Lifta, a ruined Palestinian Arab village whose inhabitants left or were forced to leave their homes in the conflict that accompanied the end of British rule and the founding of Israel in 1948. The ruins Abandoned are visible to travelers arriving at the west entrance of Jerusalem
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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An abandoned mosque on a rainy morning in the Golan Heights, in a territory captured by Israel from Syria
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
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Part of a structure in a former Jordanian military base near the Dead Sea in the occupied West Bank of Israel. The building is a scar in the landscape because it has been deserted since the 1967 war in the Middle East, when Israel conquered the region to the Jordanians.
Reuters / Ronen Zvulun
Commentators seeking explanations on the seizure of the United Kingdom Grace 1 suggest that he was drugged into action by the super hawks of the US administration, such as National Security Advisor John Bolton.
But, given the inevitability of the Iranian reaction against the British naval forces, too weak to defend British-flagged tankers, the British movement is more like a strategic choice dictated by the lack of other options.
The confrontation with the EU about Brexit means that Britain has no choice but to join more and more closely with the United States.
Of course, this will hardly be a new start as Britain has stuck to the United States on almost every possible occasion since the 1956 Suez Crisis.
The lesson learned from this Whitehall debacle is that the United Kingdom must always be close to the United States. The French drew the opposite conclusion that they must be closer to continental European states in the form of the European Economic Community.
The unilateral relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom was operational in military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Britain has entered these quagmires to demonstrate its position as the most loyal ally of the United States, without a coherent policy and without sufficient forces.
Authorities continue to stop the Iranian tanker Grace 1 (AFP/ Getty)
The Chilcot report said the only recurring theme it could detect in British politics in Iraq between 2003 and 2009 was how to get its troops out of the country. Wanting to do this without offending the Americans, the British – after a serious miscalculation – decided that it would be best to do so by transferring their forces to Afghanistan, where more than 400 of them were killed in combat.
In its confrontation with Iran, Britain is in trouble as it tries to ride several horses at the same time. It is supposed to seek to join the Iranian nuclear deal and oppose US sanctions on Iran, but in practice, it has done nothing of the sort. Grace 1 was a clear demonstration of that.
A radio exchange between the United Kingdom and Iran released after the seizure of a tanker in the Gulf
One of the features of the current crisis is that the seizure of Stena Impero is clearly equal to Iran. Unlike past Iranian retaliatory actions, he makes no effort to hide this, presumably baduming that Britain can not do anything and that the time is right to demonstrate the strength and weakness of Iran.
Iran expresses no doubt that Britain is acting as an American attorney, although this has been true for a long time. But life as an attorney can be particularly dangerous in the Gulf at the present time because of the peculiar nature of the confrontation between the United States and Iran, in which neither party wishes engage in a total war.
This makes it necessary to act through proxies like the UK, an approach that minimizes the chances that Americans are killed and that Donald Trump has no choice but to take action retaliation.
Iran is visibly hurt by sanctions, but Iranians are more likely to blame the United States for their suffering than their own government. The United States will not launch a ground invasion, as was the case in Iraq in 2003, and as long as this is not resolved, Iran can withstand military pressure.
In fact, a permanent crisis in the Gulf, just below the level of a large-scale military conflict, is in Iran's interest and is better than suffering a prolonged economic siege. .
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