{"id":191138,"date":"2019-07-06T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T12:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191138"},"modified":"2019-07-09T06:45:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T06:45:16","slug":"russia-condemns-uk-for-seizing-iranian-oil-supertanker-off-gibraltar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191138","title":{"rendered":"Russia condemns UK for seizing Iranian oil supertanker off Gibraltar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 July 5, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Royal Marines board a ship. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Russia has condemned Britain for its seizure of an Iran-operated supertanker off the coast of Gibraltar, calling the provocative move a deliberate step geared to further deteriorate the situation in the Middle East.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe condemn the seizure of a super tanker flying the Panamanian flag committed on July by the Gibraltar authorities who were backed by UK Royal Marines,\u201d the Russian foreign ministry said in a Friday statement, carried by TASS news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

On early Thursday morning, British Royal Marines in Gibraltar stormed the 300,000-tonne Grace 1 and detained it, accusing it of carrying oil to Syria in possible violation of the European Union\u2019s sanctions on the war-torn Arab country.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe consider the detention of the vessel and its cargo as a deliberate step geared to further aggravate the situation around Iran and Syria. Commentaries by UK and US officials that came immediately after this operation only prove these assessments and indicate that this operation had been plotted beforehand and involved corresponding services and agencies of several countries,\u201d the Russian foreign ministry further said.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Gibraltar authorities, the 28 crewmembers, who are nationals of India, Pakistan and Ukraine, are currently staying aboard the tanker, along with local police and customs officers boarding the vessel for a period of a probe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Iran has condemned the move as \u201cmaritime piracy\u201d and summoned\u00a0Britain\u2019s ambassador in protest.\u00a0It has vowed to employ all its political and legal capacities to secure the release of the vessel and uphold its rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday, Secretary of Iran\u2019s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei called for the reciprocal seizure of a British oil tanker in case London refuses to release the vessel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Tanker detained by Gibraltar on U.S. request to Britain, Spain says<\/h1>\n

Reuters \u2013 July 4, 2019<\/h2>\n

Gibraltar detained the supertanker Grace 1 after a request by the United States to Britain, acting Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Spain was looking into the seizure of the ship, suspected of carrying crude oil to Syria, and how it may affect Spanish sovereignty as it appears to have happened in Spanish waters, Borrell said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Spain does not recognize the waters around Gibraltar as British.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crucially, it now emerges that Britain was acting on U.S. instructions when it seized the tanker off Gibraltar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191143,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191138\/revisions\/191143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}