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London, Sep 11: The United Kingdom (UK) choice to join a US-drove maritime mission in the Gulf has deferred European endeavors to set up an naval force to guarantee safe shipping in the Strait of Hormuz away from American watches, the bloc’s diplomats said.

The UK and France proposed an European-drove maritime power in July that should have been free of Washington. They won help from Denmark, Italy and Spain, who were careful about an American mission because of a fear of making US-Iranian tensions more worse.

France will make a crisp endeavor on September 16 to set up a mission to secure merchant shipping  in the Strait, planning to accumulate exactly 15 European Union (EU) nations in Paris to talk about a path forward.

Be that as it may, representatives engaged with talks between EU capitals said London’s sudden change in procedure to join a US-drove mission, taken by the new legislature of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on August 5, has baffled advancement.

“Many of us wanted to do this with Britain, out of European solidarity, and to avoid the U.S. maximum pressure campaign on Iran,” one senior EU diplomat said. “Now it’s all on hold because Britain sided with the Americans.”

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