Just because they failed doesn't mean that what they attempted was OK or was anything other than an attempt to seize a boat.
It's OK to both dislike the US's foreign policy and also recognize that the people running the IGRC are escalating things and acting foolishly.
Is this 'attempt' really worthy of this headline? It's only there to rile up Americans.
I notice how no one calls the British 'irresponsible and escalating things' when they seized the Iranian tankers.
Trump decides one fine day to unilaterally levy sanctions on the Iranians because his son-in-law Kushners best buds - the Israelis and Saudis - wanted him to do it. So he sanctions Iran from selling oil - their main source of money - and aims to destroy their economy.
British tankers then stop, board and seize an Iranian tanker on the way to Syria because sanctions now don't allow for this sale of Iranian oil.
The Iranians, then in retaliation, ask a British tanker to step into their port. The British refuse and carry on.
This is then headlines news on CNN and we get many fine folks in here shaking their heads at the 'irresponsible Iranians' and chiding them for 'escalating things'.
Typical colonial, imperialist behavior. The US stomps on these countries with their mighty boots and these countries are not even allowed a show of resistance - that's just irresponsible we are told. Just bend over and take it. It will all be over soon.
It's not "The Iranians asked a tanker to come to their port, the British refused, and the Iranians were ok with this." based on what we know. From the article, five armed Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Iranian military) boats attempted to force a civilian vessel in international waters into their territorial waters, and the only reason that didn't happen is because of the threat of force from a nearby British warship. Mind you this is after reports that Iran had directly announced the intention to retaliate for the the seizure of one of their ships for sanctions violations.
In which case it was not really a threat is it? Iran had promised retaliation. The British were prepared. The
armed Iranians asked the British to enter Iranian waters. The British warship refused. It was an expected retaliation that was defused.
People here are rather ignoring that this is the media drum beating for war. Portraying Iran as being unreasonably aggressive.