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U.K.'s May to Lead Emergency Meeting on Persian Gulf Security
Prime Minister Theresa May will lead a meeting of the U.K. government’s emergency committee on Monday to discuss the security of shipping in the Persian Gulf after Iran seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz last week. May and the committee of top officials and ministers, dubbed Cobra, is to meet at 10:30 a.m. in London, her office said. The U.K. has demanded the immediate release of the Stena Impero and over the weekend summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires in London, Mohsen Omidzamani, following the incident in one of the world’s critical energy chokepoints. While the government threatened Iran ... (full story)