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UK decision to join Gulf mission frustrates EU plans
2019-09-15
[DAWN] Britannia’s decision to join a US-led naval mission in the Gulf has delayed Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an efforts to set up a maritime force to ensure safe shipping in the Strait of Hormuz separate from American patrols, EU diplomats say.

Britannia and La Belle France proposed a European-led maritime force in July that was to be independent of the United States. They won support from Denmark, Italia and Spain, who were wary of an American mission for fear of making US-Iranian tensions worse.

The proposal was announced after Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait, in what was then widely seen as retaliation for the seizure of an Iranian tanker in Gibraltar by British marines. The British-flagged Stena Impero is still being held by Iran, although Tehran has signalled it could release it soon. The Iranian tanker was released from Gibraltar last month.

La Belle France will make a fresh attempt on Sept 16 to set up a mission to protect merchant shipping in the Strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil passes, hoping to gather some 15 European countries in Gay Paree to discuss a way forward.

But diplomats involved in talks between EU capitals said London’s unexpected change of strategy to join a US-led mission, taken by the new government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson
...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies....
on Aug 5, has frustrated progress.

"Many of us wanted to do this with Britannia, out of European solidarity, and to avoid the U.S. maximum pressure campaign on Iran," one senior EU diplomat said. "Now it’s all on hold because Britannia sided with the Americans." Britannia, La Belle France and Germany, with support from the rest of the EU, are trying to save the 2015 nuclear accord between Iran and major powers, under which Tehran undertook to curb its nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.

Posted by:Fred

#1  That Iran accord...
Well EUSSR politburo, you can forget collecting your iranian bribes.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-09-15 14:35  

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