and nothing but propaganda at the same time the british government was in an emergency meeting to come up with a response to what it calls iranian piracy on the open sea on friday iranian revolutionary guard troops ignored warnings from the british navy and seized a british ship in the strait of hormuz the fact that it has taken 3 days for london to announce its response speaks to the few and frustrating options that it has ever since the u.s. withdrew from the iran nuclear deal britain has found itself in an almost impossible position how to help the rest of europe save the nuclear deal while maintaining ties with its most important ally the united states and to make matters more difficult britain is counting on a new trade deal with the u.s. after it leaves the european union later this year so the irony was not lost today when the u.k. said that it will put together a naval protection mission in the strait of hormuz to be led by europe and not
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We also know french that is the most likely candidate to step into dunning street 10 downing street on wednesday afternoon is going to be boris johnson and the time he is absolutely horrific because of instead of sort of throwing himself into his favorite topic that is brecht s it and sort of go to europe and sort of the hit everybody around the head and say you now finally have to do what we brits want because i m boris johnson i m the new prime minister what she has to do is go cap in hand to paris and to go in and talk to them and say now listen can you come up with anything that swims off flies so we could form convoys in the straits of hormuz and protect the tankers there and so he has to sort of strike is rather to say polite and more or less concerned. no insult against the french for instance we know how much he likes that and he also has to talk to i m going to marco who is