Iran's defense minister says Britain's seizure of oil tanker was threatening act

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Britain's seizing of an Iranian oil tanker last week was a threatening act ...

FILE PHOTO: A British Royal Navy patrol vessel guards the oil supertanker Grace 1, that's on suspicion of carrying Iranian crude oil to Syria, as it sits anchored in waters of the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, historically claimed by Spain, July 4, 2019. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

Royal Marines impounded the tanker in Gibraltar on Thursday on suspicion it was carrying oil to Syria in violation of European Union sanctions. Iran denies the vessel was headed to Syria, where the government of President Bashar al-Assad is an ally of Tehran. “These days we witnessed a threatening act from the government of England in the Strait of Gibraltar against a tanker from the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Hatami said. “This is an incorrect and wrong action, an action similar to maritime robbery...certainly these kind of robberies will not be tolerated.”

 

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Act of war. That's what you call this. Thank God for the UN…

So was the shooting down of drones in common international airspace

Some powers are trying to start a new war in Asia

Awww shit, IRAN got hurt feelies, they feel a iddy bit threatened... Show them to the nearest safe spot before they bomb the shit out of us!?!?!?

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