This morning, an Iranian official told Fars News the Stena Impero had been involved in an accident with an Iranian fishing boat and had"ignored" the boat's distress call.
The head of Ports and Maritime Organisation in southern Hormozgan province, Allahmorad Afifipour, told Fars there were 18 Indian crew members and five others from Russia, the Philippines, Lithuania and elsewhere.Mr Hunt said Iran's actions were"completely unacceptable", but stressed he wanted a diplomatic solution to the incident.He said:"We're not looking at military options, we are a looking at diplomatic way to resolve the situation.
"Despite reports, the ship has not been seized... and was allowed to continue its course after being warned about safety issues by Iranian forces," the report said.
With a comment like that they are shaking in their boots and you want to be PM scary stuff
Release the ship and follow it. Just a idea, as you can not do anything else
What consequences did the British government face when her troops seized and Iranian tanker? They aft like there is a different set of rules for them and a different set of rules for others.
Jeremy needs to wake up to the fact that this is the 21st century and that the UK is no longer a world power. Its long past time to stop playing the role of America's poodle.
Send Katie Hopkins out there.
I bet they are shaking in their boots, twat🤷🏼♂️
They need someone to write a stern letter to Iran.
Iran knows full well our Govt is in an utter shambles
Better throw a iced kipper at them, that will show them
Words..words..words words with absolutely no actions .. serious consequences never happen ever ..iran will as usual laugh there heads off . Where was uk navy even tho we have known they would eventually do this we never acted in preparation for this .. shameful mod no action.
Send in the Royal Marines...
Yeah yeah yeah, no one is worried about our country anymore....
What consequences?....silly man what are we going to do?.....nothing..we cant
The US, Germany and France will send their military over to Iran 🇮🇷 to solve the problem
Rubbish,there is nothing we can do,defence budget cut to the bone,ask Mrs Radcliffe what the UK have done for her
Throw a cruise middle down the chimney of the military headquarters
Just like politics, tanks for the memories
Jeremy_Hunt is always warning of 'serious consequences' . He's not credible.
Do they know that they are risking being paintballed by the Royal Navy?
He's WEAK.
Serious consequences? Like fucking what ? Send all the military forces we have to go and get it back. End of !!!
Guess the top brass need to start a war with someone, It's been a while since last one.
Bet they are shitting themselves 🙄
get that gobshite wave his kipper at um...
Release it or we will stop foreign aid we paid you 16m in the last 4 years just to improve educational links
We could always send out leaky aircraft carrier, maybe scuttle it out there.
What’s that a strongly worded email? If they think a discussion is going to resolve this, then we are doomed.
Should sink any Iranian armed forces vessels that venture out of their own waters,
thejointstaff SenateFloor What’s the deal that ship was drawing loaded the other day now it’s empty ! That green water looks 2 green to me.
Nothing to do with ordinary people. Let the Tories grab a gun and sort it out if they want to.
I bet they shit em selfs
Be interesting to see the response of the crew's home countries, particularly Russia and India
Is it any wonder that Iran keeps doing this 💩 . We do nothing Brits do nothing.
Oh yeah ... less talk. Just send in the heavies ?! Type45
I suspect he will stamp his feet....but very hard. Weak and wobbly.
Bomb Iran till they understand rules☝️
Lol - we have zero allies due to Brexit any no military due to cuts.
Send in the SAS/SBS!
serious consequences.....I hope it's more than a verbal scolding.....
Zionist sent their dog and the dog in turn sent his tail. UK is doing the dirty job of sparking the tension between the US and Iran. Poor people shall receive body bags and handicaps! Warmonger US Elites profits after all.
It'll get a jolly good ticking orf!
He will.....send a strongly worded note!
Harshly worded email maybe?
As long as Iran finds the tanker.... it will released.....
The problem with the UK is that when we are threatened like this we tell them there will be consequences but don’t actually give a time frame of said consequence. Either make them release it or let them keep it.
You created this crisis , it’s a tit for tat , give back their Tanker now , don’t drag us via USA 🇺🇸 who hasn’t got our backs , return their Tanker now and have dialogue now , don’t expose UK 🇬🇧 citizens to extremists, we don’t want bus bombs or bridge stabbings again
Why wasn't it escorted by the war ships in the area?
Seems to me children in nursery fighting over their toys .you stole my toy near Gibraltar and when I retaliated you are pointing your finger at me and making me look like the bad guy and now threatening me with serious consequences .wow how sensible are these politician esp Hunt
A True Leader in action ! It must be Hunt!!!
Yeah sure
I think the Iranians have got a problem, I’ve just seen two old girls cleaning the Hms Belfast.... looks like the fleet’s about to sail,anyone got eyes on the cutty’s sark ...
What's he gonna do? Threaten them with privatisation and a pay freeze
Don’t we still have an Iranian Oil Tanker seized off Gibraltar on 4/7? How about swapping ships rather than rhetoric.
If you don’t we will use big words in capitals
Rescue bid due to Government Cuts
Yawn.. Like what? Our Navy and army have been so diminished that our threats are just white noise in the back ground. Iran do not fear anything from the UK.
Armchair general alert.
So the US decides not to sign the nuclear deal, which Iran were more than willing to sign and even agreed to be inspected, which is unprecedented. Then Trump slaps sanctions on Iran. The UK again follows the US into yet another regime change war that has nothing to do with us.
Who put him in charge?
Empty threats we are impotent after years of underinvestment in our armed forces. Iran are laughing!
Just send over the SAS to kick their turbans off
Written. Read.
We'll send 10 of our biggest dinghys..let's face it we are not a word naval power and can't do anything without the Americans
We don't have the warships to protect our country or our interests. Lack of money ? But we spend billions on overseas aid. The worst tory comitment
I know what we do.... Ask the USA for help because we have zero navy and zero balls to do what is necessary here ...
Be nice if we actually put are money where are mouth is for once
Are the UK still giving Iran foreign aid?
Sh.. Jeremy and his donkeys have been negotiating for the last three years and nothing has happened, good luck getting that ship back.. Oh wait isn't it a Swedish ship? What are they doing, why aren't you reporting what they've said?
Pray tell how is he going to use his entrepreneurialism to get us out of this mess; he got us into in the first place in the strait of Gibraltar. Another Tory Blunder. Stand up to Donald Trump.
Watch Out Iran Chief Mammy Sturgeon has deployed her finest Destroyer to the Gulf 'your bums out the window now boys' 😆
He’s hard (NOT)!
With Boris PM , Trump will be calling the shots !
We could send our aircraft carrier if it wasn’t leaking and we had some jet fighters to put on it. Other than that, we’ll have send Johnny English.
I’m afraid it’s going to take more than ‘sabre rattling’...
the UKs Tory government whats this to happen the Tories will do anything to stay in government but if the lunatic boris pushes the nuclear button if be the last tory government and bye bye britain and yes biris is crazy enough to do it.
What....a 'strongly worded letter'?
Put the fighter planes on the aircraft carrier.....ooops, hang on, can’t do that and it’s flooded! Send the troops...whoops, numbers have been cut. Support the troops....until they kill the enemy....and then prosecute them...or suffer MH and leave them begging on the streets!
“Serious consequences.” What exactly will Brexit Britain be able to do alone? Courtesy of Conservatives austerity, the Navy is reduced to a nub and we have no international allies. Iran and the world are laughing at us.
Jeremy_Hunt PennyMordaunt PhilipHammondUK 2 Secondly, it looks as though Britain has utterly forgotten the hard-won lessons of the last 500 years. History shows us this island cannot rely on its neighbours for security; instead, our trusted allies lay elsewhere.
I heard he was that flipping mad he was unhinged he took one of his episodes. An aid had to call his wife to come an collect him. Blinking travesty thank goodnesses he a strong upper lip. Cobra will sort these troublesome Middle Eastern malcontents out 🏴
When dealing with the Middle East, if a power does not have the military capability running in parallel with its diplomatic approaches threats are seen regionally as not credible and weak. EmptyThreats
The English will do nothing, the Amount of Muslims in their country scares them shitless, as Muslims don't give a fuck about Infidels. They will destroy England from the inside with the help of their 14 lord Mayors. & 100s of Mosques and their planted saboteurs in the Military.
The weapon is unleashed
How does your own medicine taste? You think you can confiscate an Iranian oil tanker without consequences?
Bet they are quaking in their boots !
When Iran has managed to build a viable nuclear weapon, what will they do? It won’t be a press release, it will be the start of a nuclear war - action has to be taken to destroy their infrastructure before they kill off any hope of peace in the Middle East
Send in the aircraft carrier!! We can send the aircraft later.
Ha ha brexit has started time to rip of the Brits and make them pay.
Cobra meeting, we call it a coffee morning where I live
Simple solution sink the ship in Iran harbour rename grace 1 The Stena Impero's hand it over to U.K. owners tell Iran to go fk and impose harder sanctions than the USA on the country
Apparently they agreed to send them a strongly worded letter telling them stop it please not nice
I wonder what Corbyn is doing? Probably apologising to the Iranians and telling them to keep the tanker as a gift..!
Our government are gutless. They wont actually do anything
Iran must be shaking in their boots
Don’t worry Trump will come to the rescue 👍
What are we going to do, use harsh words against them?
Iran be like....
🤣🤣🤣 'serious consequences' my rectum.... British government is a joke at this time, no one takes them seriously ....
What send them a nasty letter to give them a laugh
Oooooh what’s he’s going to do send Corbyn over to talk to them.
So much for EU solidarity. Same as France selling exocet missiles to Argentina during the Falklands war. Our allies my arse
The serious consequences Iran warning, mere words, if JH threatens it he’s got to be prepared to do it.
Have you asked corbyn to write them a strongly worded letter? I think that may do the job🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why did Hunt allow the UK to get into this position in the first place? He was awful in the NHS and now he's in charge of foreign policy. Unbelievable.
So Hunt is willing to send men and women to war over 1 oil tanker instead being a diplomat and make a deal to get the tanker that was taken from Iran back, in an exchange, for the British tanker, thereby, keeping peace and no lives lost? BBCNews cnn MSNBC
Zionists want war. US and UK governments are full of them, so they always get what they want.
How convenient uk has become embroiled into Trump's spat with Iran and before elections...Iran
Getting a taste of their own medicine, good 👍🏽
why are we still looking to stay in the iran nuclear deal lok at how they behave
'serious consequences' don't make me laugh ... Our new multi billion pound flagship can't even pass sea trails without leaking .
Remember if the UK & USA hit people, they’re not allowed to hit us back & if they do, we brand them Provocative or terrorist The UK should Release the Iran ship let Iran Release UK Ship any Country who want War should go alone & don’t involve other Iraq war teach us enough Lesson
With what ? You’ve cut back on Army, Navy and airforce! I wonder if those who doubled their wealth under your Government will chip in!!
Not British owned,no British crew. Not sure it's really British.
Serious Cosequences... By that you mean even more useless sanctions and 'don't be a aughty boy again' rethoric
someone help me out the tankers swedish owned and none of the crew is british hows that a british tanker
‘Serious consequences’. Laughable! Johnston and co are so in thrall to Russia that the last thing they’d want is to go to war with Putins friends in Tehran! (Oh and the fact that under the Tories our armed forces have been so depleted that they couldn’t fight anyway)
And Iran shakes this morning with the Uks pathetic threat hand it over to the USA and Iran will shake with more then a polite threat
Breaking news, Jeremyk Hunt is in secret talks with Gobby Farage to go to Iran to negotiate a deal to get our tanker back. Apparently Farage is the only person that has negotiating skills.
Yea right! Oooooooooooo, now Im scared........
Campaign rhetoric.
He’ll tell them not to be naughty and nothing else😂😂
Well, the Iranian leader has warned beforehand that what the UK did in Gibraltar would be 'answered'. And that is now the answer. Who started this mess?
😂 yeah not from us the USA have just loads of troops in Saudi.... this has all been a big plan 🤦🏻♀️😡 cause the world needs another war right now ffs 🤦🏻♀️😡🤬
Iran must be bricking it !!!!
Release their ship then they will release yours ok
Maybe the Iranian tanker should be released first
I’m sorry but Hunt couldn’t sound menacing if he tried
Jeremy_Hunt wants a war for his US racist backers
Ooooh he's hard. Strongly worded email being drafted?
When I was living in Plymouth in the 70's we were training the Iranian navy.
All this Sabre rattling...🤔, Trump will sit down & do a deal with Iran, they'll exchange tankers & release a few prisoners, it'll all disappear as fast as it started...., jobs a good'n 🇬🇧🇺🇸👍
Were it not for reading the comments online I would have thought Britain wholeheartedly supported it's government. I'm glad to see there are some with the gift of clarity.
Just ask wor donald over in the states, he is desperate to do one on Iran. He will gladly help out.
Hasn’t the UK seized an Iranian tanker before this happened? If so then why are they so surprised that Iran have done the same? How dumb are these people? Beggars belief!
This is how it will be from here on. UK reduced as a global power to a small island of little consequence. We have no threat capabilities, & our ability to influence anything of consequence on the global stage will be instantly diminished. Relegated from Champs League to LDV Van
Iran replied, 'Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough'. Britain, 'USA! USA! USA!'.
The UK Defense & the Foreign Office R to blame for this mess! Why didn't they plan ahead for this possibility? The signs were clear that Iran was going to hi-jack or sink a ship a long time back. Why do we have MP's and diplomats if they R spineless and dont do their job?
Imagine that 90 years ago Royal Navy would have no problem controlling the area and providing safety to all ships...
Absolute bunch of lemons 🍋 they meet and the usual do nothing, getting bullied by Iran an all we do is cry 😢 consequences
Empty threats...
does 'serious consequences' mean getting BorisJohnson to smack them with a wet kipper?
Isn’t this just a proportional response to us taking one of their oil tankers ? They warned us they’d respond yet left an oil tanker totally exposed.
Now we are trying to find loopholes to attack Iran just like Blair did for Iraq. Fund will be coming now for war business by big private companies. Arm deals era. Some may be chanting 'let's kill some more Muslims'.Shame. I strongly believe Iran will not do any mistake for a war
What’s Britain going to do ? As Trump tells us, that’s what.
What ever the government are gutless
We need focus groups, endless discussions and meetings of the NEC, voting on amendments and then take no action, especially any sort of military action.
Has he got Maggies guts
All caused by a very stupid man in the USA
“Serious consequences”! They must be shitting themselves.
Oooooo what more talk? Iran has Russia. Corbyn and France in its side. We need to roll over give it the ships and let it rule the seas.
The Brits captured an Iranian ship at the request of the EU, who were breaking EU sanctions. Iran is retaliating & the consequences of this all rest at the EU door! The EU is dead silent now the U.K. ship has been captured! It’s a ploy to keep EU fingers clean & dirty the U.K.
We are all waiting to see Britain spring into action... Just like the good ol Empire 😂
A strongly worded letter ? Mrs Thatcher must be turning in her grave to the response of piracy against a British flagged ship by Iran.
piss take
usual thing is to send a strongly worded letter. Like that works unless it is strapped to a Tomahawk Missile.
We did seize one of Iran’s. Tit for tat so far. We won’t go to war with Iran imo. However I suspect if the Trump decided to go to war with them, we probably will join them.
What about The Iranian Tanker being held in Gibraltar Jeremy ?
Bet they’re shitting themselves 🙄
Maybe people will realise trump is correct about Iran.
Hypocrisy, show how to do that by realising the Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar
Are there any methods people could use - to help them discern 'facts from fiction', 'real from FakeNews'?
Just what? Our Royal Navy has been run down by government after government, our Royal Airforce is also run down & has few front line aircraft, the army is less than 80,000. Just what could we do, it’s a disgrace that our military is cut to the bone
Serious consequences,Oh you going to stop sending chocolate bars I guess
Not exactly got a fleet of ships to send due to this Governments cuts🤬
Why did the creepy Hunt hi-jack an Iranian tanker and imprison the crew in GIB?
Iran threatend to do this weeks ago. I think the UK let this happen on purpose to force a war. If someone tells you that they will punch your nose in 5 minutes. Then you protect your nose. Why was this tanker left unprotected ?
That’s right wave a wet stick.
Hand over their tanker and they'll hand over yours!
I don't think Iran give a damn
No this man will save us
No good relying on EU for support not that they would be able to. We will need to look to US.
I am sure a straight swap of tankers and we can carry on with the bluff and bluster.
He means he will arse lick the Americans for help
UK: We’ll spend billions on a nuclear deterrent - nobody will mess with us then Iran: I’ll just take those two ships thank you very much
We are going to send the herring fleet to save them.
Smoke & Mirrors
Apparently they’ve had a COBRA meeting, and as usual decided to do absolutely nothing. Talk is cheap...
Why are Iran trying trying to create conflict with the west. Can someone please enlighten me?
Who?
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