The news comes after the US sent an aircraft carrier strike group to the Gulf as the country increases pressure on Iran.
Britain's Foreign Office has gone into crisis mode because of rising tensions in the Gulf between the United States and Iran, Sky News can reveal.
Crisis mode is a formal status which can lead to staffing being increased to 24 hours per day at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's headquarters in Whitehall, with senior officials brought in to direct operations. At the moment the level of crisis is at the lower end with a small number of additional staff focusing on Iran, and additional reports being produced by officials."We are going into crisis mode," a Whitehall source said, describing it, for now, as"pretty light touch".
The source said Britain"is caught between [an] expectation from the US to support and a much more leery EU".
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