in breach of EU sanctions.
The move sparked a diplomatic crisis between the UK and Iran, which has escalated over recent weeks and saw Iran seize a British-flagged and Swedish-owned oil tanker, Stena Impero, in the Gulf.The Gibraltar authorities freed the vessel on Thursday after receiving assurances from Iran that it would not discharge its cargo in Syria.on the grounds that it had links to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which it has designated a terrorist group.
Gibraltar, in a statement on Sunday, said it could not comply with the request because the Revolutionary Guard Corps is not viewed as a terrorist organisation by the EU, which the British territory is currently part of. It also said that US sanctions preventing oil exports from Iran could not be enforced by the EU, reflecting what it said were"the very different positions and legal regimes in the US and the EU".
It should head for Venezuela
Send a torpedo
Which Iran has always denied, and the international inspectors have found no evidence of. Fixed it for you
Hopefully this will descalated the situation a bit.
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