Iran and U.K. Talk Over Tanker Crisis

The U.K. and Iran sought to defuse tensions over a detained Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar but failed to resolve the issue

The U.K. and Iran sought to defuse tensions over a detained Iranian oil tanker in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, but failed to resolve an issue that has raised new fears about military conflict over commercial-shipping lanes.

The renewed diplomacy included a call between the two countries’ top diplomats, demonstrating how both sides wanted to de-escalate a crisis that flared up after Gibraltar authorities and the Royal Marines seized the Grace 1 on July 4. The U.K. says the Iranian tanker was carrying two million...

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