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- Britain will consider deployments to the Gulf, Defence Minister John Healey announced, condemning Iran's actions as an escalation.
- The Royal Navy's last minehunter, HMS Middleton, returned March 1 due to age-related unfitness.
- Healey confirmed autonomous mine-hunting systems in the region and said allies are consulted on more deployments.
- Iran has laid about a dozen mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
- The United States military destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels.
