Bloomberg: Britain does not need the Suez Canal crisis again

The writer David Vickling likened the crisis of Iran's detention of a British tanker in the Straits of Hormuz a few days ago to the crisis of the Suez Canal, which destroyed the ambition of the United Kingdom to become a world power, as he put it.

In an article on the Bloomberg website, Vickling criticized the British government's handling of the carrier's crisis, which has been held by Iran for days and said it could have been avoided.

According to the article, the poorly planned military operation in a vital global strait, and London's misinterpretation of Washington are steps that carry the disastrous features of the Suez Canal crisis in the mid-1950s.

British Prime Minister Theresa Mae's failure to predict Tehran's reaction to the United Kingdom's detention of an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar was surprising, despite a high-level Iranian official's call to respond hours later.

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He said that Iran's strategy since the beginning of the current crisis with America following the withdrawal of the latter from the nuclear agreement, which is based on the policy of reciprocity and control of navigation in the Straits of Hormuz all factors indicate the inevitability of the current crisis.

The belief that the British Government had entered the current crisis regarding the inadvertent detention of its carrier was considered to be unreasonable and that the Kingdom's authorities had warned the Council of Ministers that Gibraltar, regardless of its legitimacy, would lead to a deterioration of the situation that was difficult to control.

The British government does not have the strength to prevent similar attacks against its tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, he said. He wondered what Britain would do if Iran decided not to respond to its current response. The United Kingdom's decision to send two warships to the Gulf this year, in addition to its only existing warship in the region, is not enough to secure the huge number of British merchant ships crossing the Strait, which is close to 1,000, he said.

Regardless of the motives of the British government to get on the line of the US-Iran crisis, it is clear that they acted without a deliberate plan.

The author said that the severity of the crisis between London and Tehran does not reach the level of escalation reached by the crisis between Tehran and Washington for several reasons, the most important of which is the existence of diplomatic relations between the two countries and Tehran's keenness to maintain good relations with the remaining parties in the nuclear agreement in light of the decline of oil exports because of sanctions imposed by it America.

He concluded by saying that the situation in the vital Strait of Hormuz, through which five (five) oil flows, is very fragile, and not the perfect place for the British government to play matches, especially in the difficult circumstances of the United Kingdom.