{"id":191634,"date":"2019-07-16T06:53:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T06:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191634"},"modified":"2019-07-18T05:24:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T05:24:43","slug":"british-warship-hms-duncan-en-route-to-gulf-on-high-alert-after-iranian-bomb-boat-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191634","title":{"rendered":"British warship HMS Duncan en route to Gulf on high alert after Iranian bomb boat found"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Hughes \u2013 Daily Mirror July 15, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Type 45 destroyer. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

A British warship steaming to the Gulf is on high alert after an Iranian \u201cbomb boat\u201d was discovered in its path.<\/span><\/p>\n

The unmanned attack vessel packed with explosives could have blown a hole in the hull of Type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan.<\/span><\/p>\n

The remote-controlled\u00a0Blowfish was spotted lurking in the Red Sea by Saudi forces close to HMS Duncan\u2019s route as she sails to protect shipping in the Gulf.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran has sworn revenge after Royal Marines impounded one of its tankers suspected of trying to illegally deliver oil to Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sources believe the Blowfish, which can be steered from four miles away, was deployed by Iran\u2019s Houthi allies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Heavily-armed Duncan, which is due to join the frigate HMS Montrose, will be at \u201caction stations\u201d as she sails though the Suez Canal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Former naval officer Simon Warrington warned: \u201cThe threat from the Houthis, who as Iran\u2019s proxy militia do Tehran’s dirty work, is very real.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

HMS Duncan is the latest warship to join the growing fleet gathering in the Gulf – after America sent another warship<\/a> and a Patriot missile-defence \u00adsystem to the Middle East amid \u00adescalating tensions with Iran in May.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amphibious transport ship the USS Arlington \u2013 with amphibious vehicles and helicopters on board \u2013 will join a strike force led by aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.<\/span><\/p>\n

And B-52 bombers have arrived at a base in Qatar, the Pentagon said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The US says the Gulf deployments are in response to \u201cheightened Iranian readiness to conduct offensive operations\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Pentagon added that Washington was \u201cready to defend US forces and interests in the region\u201d but did not seek conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remote controlled \u2018bomb boat\u2019 found on the destroyer\u2019s route as she sails to Middle East. Or so claim Saudi intelligence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191638,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191634\/revisions\/191638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}