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Monday, January 09, 2012

HMS Daring off to Gulf as UK and USA fail to remember the past

HMS DaringHMS Daring, the first of the new ‘Daring’ class of Clydebuilt Type 45 destroyers and whose sea trials in Argyll waters we watched closely on AIS is off on her first active mission – to the Gulf.

Her deployment is far from unconnected to the recent threat from Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz to shipping if economic sanctions were put in place against the country.

The pressure for such sanctions, however, is increasing with President Obama signing a sanctions bill in Washington at the end of December 12011 and France, in the past week, exhorting EU member states to embargo oil exports and freeze the assets of Iranian banks.

BY the end of January, Britain, as an EU member, will have to agree to or stand aside from this proposal.

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