Iran’s IRGC releases footage of purported radio exchange with British warship
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards published footage on
Monday purportedly showing the Guards warning off a British warship during
their July 19 seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker near the Strait of
Hormuz.
Iranian commandos seized British-flagged tanker
Stena Impero in the world's most important waterway for oil shipments, two
weeks after British forces captured an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar,
accused of violating sanctions on Syria.
The video, published by the semi-official Tasnim
news agency, contains footage of the capture of the tanker, showing Guards
abseiling onto the deck from a helicopter, with the audio recording
superimposed.
“You are required not to interfere in these issues,”
the Guards' navy representative says.
“This is British warship foxtrot two three six. I am
in the vicinity of an internationally recognized strait with a merchant vessel
in my vicinity conducting transit passage,” a voice with a British accent
replies.
“Don't put your life in danger,” the Guards navy
representative says.
The video also contains an exchange between the
Guards and the same British warship during a standoff in mid-July involving the
British Heritage oil tanker, according to Tasnim.
Three Iranian vessels attempted to block the passage
of a ship, the British Heritage, through the Strait of Hormuz, but withdrew
after warnings from a British warship, the British government said on July 11.
Britain last week started sending a warship to
accompany all British-flagged vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, a change in
policy announced on Thursday after the government previously said it did not
have resources to do so.
فیلم رهگیری هوايي #ناو_جنگي_انگلیس که نفتکش توقیف شده اخیر را اسکورت می کرد و بخشي از مکالمه نیروهای سپاه با آن منتشر شد.
— خبرگزاری تسنیم 🇮🇷 (@Tasnimnews_Fa) July 29, 2019
نيروهاي سپاه در اين مكالمه به ناو انگليسي هشدار ميدهند كه در فرايند توقيف نفتكش دخالت نكنند.
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