Iran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker was allegedly due to a collision with an Iranian fishing boat, the country's state-run IRNA news agency said Saturday.
Details of what took place Friday remained sketchy after Iran reported that it had seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. The strait at the mouth of the Persian Gulf is a shipping channel for one-fifth of all global crude exports. The U.K. has featured prominently in the recent tensions with Iran. Britain's Royal Marines assisted in the seizure of an Iranian oil supertanker on July 4 by Gibraltar, a British overseas territory off the southern coast of Spain.
The owner of the Liberian-flagged tanker later said the ship was briefly boarded by armed guards before being allowed to go. Iran's semi-official Fars news agency tweeted that the Mesdar had left Iran's territorial waters. The incident came two days after Washington claimed that a U.S. warship downed an Iranian drone in the strait. Iran denied that it lost an aircraft in the area.
The Europeans — Germany, France, Britain, and the European Union — want to maintain the deal, but have not been able to address Iranian demands without violating the sanctions. Iran has begun breaching some of the restrictions on its activities outlined in the agreement to put pressure on them to find a solution.
Here we go
Clever to outfox the UK game.
British always on the wrong side of the road. Of course this is what will happen
JeremyKeller9
Time to bomb!
Didn’t Trump say “no collision”? What is the oranges of this situation?
Iran has to be either stupid or getting their advise from people that don’t like them, they know that 30 miles would be gone easily in 3 hours, do they really want a war? Use other tactics we know that realDonaldTrump is an idiot but for you to fall down the same hole mmmmm....
BULLSH*!!!
You might want to review what UK's Jeremy Hunt has stated. /smh no wonder Youtube threatens you so much. DonaldJTrumpJr
Good
They said first it was because it was stealing oil, now it's over a collision? They're lying.
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