>>The rights and wrongs...
We have certainly been caught with out pants down on this.
The Iranians call us the "Sly Fox" or similar and haven't really forgiven us for our role in carving up their oil industry in the '50s and the attendant coup d'état.
We still owe them about £400m fora battle tank order made by the Shah just before he abdicated and they see us as the closest ally of the USA which doesn't help either.
Given the recent escalation in the area, we should have been escorting our ships through the straights.
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