UK Tension With Iran Rise After Oil Tanker Attack

UK Tension With Iran Rise After Oil Tanker Attack
Liberian-flagged oil tanker Mercer Street left Cape Town, South Africa, on Jan. 2, 2016. Johan Victor via AP
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LONDON—Britain and Iran issued warnings to each other’s diplomats Monday as tensions escalated over a recent attack on an oil tanker in the Arabian Sea.

Britain began the day by summoning Iran’s ambassador, Mohsen Baharvand, to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in response to Thursday’s drone strike on the MV Mercer Street, which killed a British national and a Romanian.