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SAt the summit of the Aspen Security Forum, he added, "What you see is an attempt to break this status quo, to seek to divide us with our European powers."
The United States is already monitoring their commercial cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz using military aircraft.
At the same time, Russia has accused the United States of having "taken advantage" of rising tensions in the region to deploy hundreds of additional troops to Saudi Arabia. About 500 people are being sent to Prince Sultan Air Base, east of Riyadh,
Russian Senator Konstantin Kosachev said: "Neither Iran nor the United States, as a whole, are interested in a real war, but the game of nervousness and rising stakes will continue. "
Germany has described the seizure of the British oil tanker as "unjustifiable intrusion" into shipping, which "further aggravates an already tense situation".
A spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry said: "Another regional escalation would be very dangerous, it would also undermine any ongoing efforts to find a way out of the current crisis".
France condemned the seizure and said that it "undermined the necessary de-escalation of tensions".
A US defense official told CNN that the United States was using armed military planes to monitor US commercial cargo ships when they cross the strait, which can take up to eight hours.
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