Johnson is expected to win the contest to replace outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May at the end of July.
Boris Johnson—the front runner in the race to become the next prime minister of the U.K.—has said he would not support U.S. military operations against Iran as the international community watches Tehran nervously for signs of nuclear proliferation.
Hunt was careful not to give too direct an answer to the question."The risk we have is something different, which is an accidental war, because something happens in a very tense and volatile situation," he said.
Britain has been pulled deeper into the crisis after Royal Marines seized an Iranian tanker off Gibraltar earlier this month, which officials said was attempting to transport oil to bolster President Bashar al-Assad in war torn Syria in contravention of European Union sanctions.
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