This water passage has been known as the Persian Gulf for a long time and in different period of time in the past its name has been repeated and recorded in the history and sometimes there have been some disputes over its name which had been because of the excessive demands of some Arab countries. But after the shot-down of the U.S. drone, all those mischiefs over the name of the Persian Gulf have been thwarted and it seems all of those disputes have been because of their reliance on the false authority of the U.S. and this reliance had been the major reason for such mischiefs from the Persian Gulf littoral states. Of course this mischief has come to an end because of Iran’s political power show and it has eased the way for a sweet sleep for all neighboring countries.
There are abundant evidences to prove Iran’s dominance on this water passage and nobody can deny it. The most obvious evidence is the IRGC’s full command on violations by the vessels during their passing from the Persian Gulf, and British oil tanker Stena Impero is one of the clear examples as the oil tanker is still under seizure of Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization.
Recently the captain of a British Royal warship has confessed that the warship has had 115 confrontations with IRGC in the Strait of Hormuz and finally the IRGC seized the British oil tanker which is still under seizure.
Commander Will King told the British Daily Mail newspaper that British oil tanker was seized on July 19 in the Persian Gulf (the Iranian officer that seized the tanker boasted “she’s mine now” over the radio to the HMS Montrose, while steering the ship towards Iran. Stena Impero is still being held in Bandar Abbas Port)
The commander of HMS Montrose recalls the incident, “The British tanker was seized only by the huge number of IRGC’s speed-boats and we were unable to take action against them.”
According to British officials, Iranian speed boats tried to stop a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. Two warships of MHS Defender and MHS Kent were dispatched to the Persian Gulf to escort British commercial vessels.
The commander of MHS Montrose in another interview with the British daily The Times also said that he IRGC had “heavily” tested HMS Montrose almost daily with fast attack craft and drones deployed as close as 200 meters, adding that it shows the dominance of the IRGC over the whole Persian Gulf. That how much Iran has influenced on security climate has been confirmed and acknowledged by other commanders and even Persian Gulf littoral states’ officials, and it needs no more propagation or presenting more evidence. So such a fatherly and leadership feeling lets the country to release the oil tanker after receiving an official letter of request and fines from Britain for the offender tanker.
Iran knows well that security in the Persian Gulf belongs to all countries which benefit it and is ready even to pay for it and to continue its strategy till evacuating the region from foreigners and non-native arrogance countries who exercise force only for the sake of their own interests.
By: Hamid Reza Naghashian
