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UK keen to send European naval mission to counter Iran's 'piracy'

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London | Britain is calling for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, days after Iran seized a British-flagged tanker in what London described as an act of "state piracy" in the strategic waterway.

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt outlined the plans to Parliament after a meeting of COBR, the government's emergency committee, which discussed London's response to Friday's capture of the Stena Impero tanker by Iranian commandos at sea.

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