The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has challenged President Donald Trump’s assertion that Iran was behind the recent attacks on two Norwegian and Japanese tankers in the Gulf of Oman. The foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt hit back at Corbyn, saying the Labour leader’s response to the Iran crisis was “pathetic and predictable. The Iran crisis has been useful for Hunt as it has pitched him into the limelight. “President Trump says ‘Iran did it’, while Jeremy Hunt says the Iranian regime was ‘almost certainly’ behind it. “If military action does eventually break out, conclusions reached today – behind closed doors – will one day be scrutinised in public.”

Source: The Telegraph June 15, 2019 18:33 UTC