Associated Press reports the UK Navy is preparing ships and sailors for a possible Strait of Hormuz mine-clearing mission with allied support.<\/p>\n
According to\u00a0the Associated Press, Royal Navy vessels and hundreds of\u00a0British sailors are preparing to\u00a0head toward the Strait of\u00a0Hormuz for a\u00a0possible mine-clearing operation.<\/p>\n
The agency reported that the RFA Lyme Bay landing ship is\u00a0currently near Gibraltar. The vessel is\u00a0being prepared for a\u00a0mission aimed at\u00a0securing navigation in\u00a0the region. Ammunition and unmanned maritime systems fitted with sonar equipment for mine detection are being loaded on\u00a0board.<\/p>\n
In\u00a0an\u00a0interview with AP, UK\u00a0Armed Forces Minister Al\u00a0Carns said the operation could be\u00a0carried out under the joint leadership of\u00a0London and Paris. However, he\u00a0noted that such a\u00a0mission would be\u00a0possible only after an\u00a0agreement is\u00a0reached to\u00a0halt hostilities in\u00a0the Middle East.<\/p>\n
According to\u00a0Carns, once preparations are complete, the RFA Lyme Bay is\u00a0expected to\u00a0join the destroyer HMS Dragon and other allied vessels. The group would then pass through the Suez Canal and head toward the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n
Royal Navy mine-warfare commander Gemma Britton said Iran could use different types of\u00a0sea mines, including bottom, cable and rocket-propelled mines capable of\u00a0reacting to\u00a0sound, movement or\u00a0light.<\/p>\n
At\u00a0the same time, a\u00a0US\u00a0official told the Associated Press that no\u00a0mines have so\u00a0far been detected in\u00a0the Strait of\u00a0Hormuz and no\u00a0damage to\u00a0vessels has been recorded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press reports the UK Navy is preparing ships and sailors for a possible Strait of Hormuz mine-clearing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[43988,656,43222,36431,143,16000,39,43218,101,7621],"class_list":["post-131190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-al-carns","tag-associated-press","tag-gemma-britton","tag-hms-dragon","tag-maritime-security","tag-mine-clearing","tag-persian-gulf","tag-rfa-lyme-bay","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-uk-navy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116639245390639899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}