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    Britain mounts diplomatic response for Iran to release tanker

    by Christina Boyle, Nabih Bulos and Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times Jul 20, 2019 4 minutes

    LONDON - Britain mobilized a diplomatic broadside - but no immediate military action - against Iran on Saturday in retaliation for its seizure of the Stena Impero, a British-flagged tanker, in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's top diplomat in London was summoned to the foreign office, while British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt expressed "his extreme disappointment" in a phone call to Mohammad Javad Zarif, his Iranian counterpart.

    British ships were also warned to temporarily avoid the strategic Middle East waterway and top government officials were looking for ways to stem the rising tensions while branding Iran's seizure of the British-flagged vessel an "illegal act."

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