Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard published footage Monday purportedly showing the Guards warning off a British warship during their July 19 seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Tasnim news agency.
"You are required not to interfere in these issues," the Guard navy representative says in the recording published by Tasnim.
"This British warship F236. I am in the vicinity of an internationally recognized strait with a merchant vessel in my vicinity conducting transit passage," a voice with a British accent replies.
"Don't put your life danger," the Guards navy representative says.
Britain Monday rejected the idea that it could release an Iranian tanker in exchange for the British-flagged vessel.
"There is no quid pro quo," Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told BBC radio. "This is not about some kind of barter. This is about the international law and the rules of the international legal system being upheld and that is what we will insist on."
Reuters
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