{"id":49781,"date":"2019-11-25T07:22:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49781"},"modified":"2019-11-25T07:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T12:22:12","slug":"uae-to-host-european-led-naval-mission-to-secure-gulf-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49781","title":{"rendered":"UAE To Host European-Led Naval Mission To Secure Gulf Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UAE To Host European-Led Naval Mission To Secure Gulf Waters<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

France announced Sunday that a proposed European-led mission to patrol the Persian Gulf will be based out of a recently established French naval base in Abu Dhabi, and that the naval patrol will soon go “operational”<\/strong> amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paris has spearheaded efforts to get the European maritime security mission off the ground, in competition with US efforts at establishing an American-led mission, which Iran and some European allies fear could lead to war, given Iranian leaders have condemned any US efforts to “police” the vital Strait of Hormuz<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis morning we formalized that the command post will be based on Emirati territory,\u201d Defence Minister Florence Parly\u00a0told reporters\u00a0<\/a>in the UAE capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A French Rafale-M lands on board the USS George H. W. Bush, via French Navy.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe hope … to contribute to a navigation that is as safe as possible in a zone which we know is disputed and where there has already been a certain number of serious incidents,\u201d she explained of the French-led mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The maritime patrol is expected to start early next year<\/strong> and will involve some ten European and non-European nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parly further condemned the latest Iranian announcements confirming that it is blowing past uranium enrichment limits previously agreed to under the 2015 nuclear deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The maritime initiative since being first proposed in July has received broad support in Europe, including the UK, following the summer-long ‘tanker wars’ which had resulted in the months-long capture of a British-flagged vessel, later released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UAE To Host European-Led Naval Mission To Secure Gulf Waters France announced Sunday that a proposed European-led mission to patrol the Persian Gulf will be based out of a recently established French naval base in Abu Dhabi, and that the naval patrol will soon go “operational” amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington. Paris has spearheaded efforts to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[333,522,1129,2662,3217],"class_list":["post-49781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-france","tag-middle-east","tag-persian-gulf","tag-tehran","tag-uae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49782,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49781\/revisions\/49782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}