{"id":281944,"date":"2019-07-12T06:47:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T06:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=281944"},"modified":"2019-07-12T06:54:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T06:54:13","slug":"iranian-boats-attempted-to-impede-the-passage-of-british-tanker-uk-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iranian-boats-attempted-to-impede-the-passage-of-british-tanker-uk-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian boats attempted to &#8216;impede the passage&#8217; of British tanker: UK govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Iranian ships attempted to \u201cimpede the passage\u201d of a British oil tanker in Gulf waters, forcing a UK frigate to intervene, the British government said Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cContrary to international law, three Iranian vessels attempted to impede the passage of a commercial vessel, British Heritage, through the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d a British government statement said of the incident, which occurred on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHMS Montrose was forced to position herself between the Iranian vessels and British Heritage and issue verbal warnings to the Iranian vessels, which then turned away. We are concerned by this action and continue to urge the Iranian authorities to de-escalate the situation in the region,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Iranian ships attempted to \u201cimpede the passage\u201d of a British oil tanker in Gulf waters, forcing a UK frigate to intervene, the British government said Thursday. \u201cContrary to international law, three Iranian vessels attempted to impede the passage of a commercial vessel, British Heritage, through the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d a British government statement said of the incident, which occurred on Wednesday. \u201cHMS Montrose was forced to position herself between the Iranian vessels and British Heritage and issue verbal warnings to the Iranian vessels, which then turned away. We are concerned by this action and continue to urge the Iranian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,130,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greater-kashmir","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-greater-kashmir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}