Iran ‘almost certainly’ behind Gulf tanker attacks: Britain’s Hunt
Team Udayavani, Jun 15, 2019, 1:11 PM IST
London: An independent assessment by Britain has concluded that Iran was “almost certainly” responsible for the latest Gulf tanker attacks, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Friday.
“Our own assessment leads us to conclude that responsibility for the attacks almost certainly lies with Iran. These latest attacks build on a pattern of destabilising Iranian behaviour and pose a serious danger to the region,” Hunt said in a statement.
“No other state or non-state actor could plausibly have been responsible,” the foreign office statement said.
Hunt called on Iran to “cease all forms of destabilising activity” and said Britain was working with other countries to try to find a diplomatic solution to the escalating standoff between Tehran and Washington.
However, Iran rejected the accusation of staging the Gulf of Oman attacks.
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