Britain’s Navy to Escort UK-Flagged Ships Through Strait of Hormuz

Britain’s Navy to Escort UK-Flagged Ships Through Strait of Hormuz
Undated handout photograph shows the Stena Impero, a British-flagged vessel owned by Stena Bulk, at an undisclosed location, obtained by Reuters on July 19, 2019. Stena Bulk/via Reuters
|Updated:

LONDON—Britain’s navy will accompany UK-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz to provide protection after the United States killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike, inflaming tensions in the region.

Britain was forced to escort its ships through the world’s most important waterway for oil shipments for a time last year after Iranian commandos seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait.