<span style="color: #222222;">Britain's junior Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood today said  the government was considering several options in response to Iran's seizure of a British-flagged tanker. He was talking to a news channel in London. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Ellwood, however, denied that Britain had been negligent in providing protection to its ships passing through the Gulf and said the Royal Navy was too small to manage UK interests around the globe.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' London has said, its priority is to de-escalate tensions with Iran in the Gulf, and has called for the release of the Stena Impero oil tanker which was seized Friday in what Britain said was an illegal move in Omani waters.</span><br />'' <br />''  <br />