Wednesday night’s incident in the Persian Gulf was, like much brinkmanship, entirely predictable.
Mohsen Rezaei, a general in the Revolutionary Guard Corps and an advisor to Iran’s supreme leader, warned Iran might go after a British tanker after Royal Marines seized Iran’s Grace 1 supertanker near Gibraltar last week.
The Revolutionary Guard Corps boats that sped towards BP’s British Heritage last night signalled Iran’s willingness to make good on the threat – the Islamic Republic being keen to prove it is no push over.
And when HMS Montrose intervened, they sensibly turned away – no one, after all, wants a real war.
British officials will have heaved a sigh of relief. But Royal Navy…
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