{"id":193281,"date":"2019-08-16T08:19:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T08:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193281"},"modified":"2019-08-18T07:48:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T07:48:16","slug":"us-warns-of-serious-consequences-after-iranian-tanker-released-by-gibraltar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193281","title":{"rendered":"US warns of \u2018serious consequences\u2019 after Iranian tanker released by Gibraltar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 Jan 16, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Great graphic courtesy Henry Makow and the Fitzpatrick informer. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The Trump administration should be careful about making repeated threats and warnings, particularly over Iran.<\/h5>\n
In June Trump warned Iran that it risked \u201cobliteration\u201d if it wouldn\u2019t talk with the U.S.<\/h5>\n
Iran refused saying it didn\u2019t trust the Americans.<\/h5>\n
Nothing happened.<\/h5>\n
Then, President Trump reportedly called off air strikes<\/span><\/a> on Iran, after Iran downed a U.S. Global Hawk drone in its airspace. Instead of a military strike Trump imposed more \u201chard-hitting\u201d sanctions<\/span><\/a> on Iran\u2019s already battered economy.<\/h5>\n
Now the U.S. has warned of \u201cserious consequences\u201d after an Iranian tanker that had been seized by Royal Marines off the coast of Gibraltar was released. The tanker was released despite U.S. requests that the authorities in Gibraltar continue to hold the vessel.<\/h5>\n
The thing about making threats is that you must be prepared to follow through on them. If you don\u2019t the warnings sound hollow and eventually they are ignored.<\/h5>\n
More and more this is what is happening with Trump\u2019s threats. Iran may be struggling economically because of U.S. sanctions but his tough talk is having little effect. Like a schoolyard bully faced with an undersized but tough opponent, Trump may have to make good on his threats or risk losing face entirely. Ed.<\/h5>\n

US warns of \u2018serious consequences\u2019 after Iranian tanker released by Gibraltar<\/h1>\n

RT \u2013 Jan 16, 2019<\/h2>\n
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The Grace 1 off the coast of Gibraltar. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The US has said that \u201cany individuals\u201d<\/em> associated with the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1, which was released by the authorities in Gibraltar on Thursday despite US pressure to keep it in detention, should brace themselves for \u201cserious consequences,\u201d<\/em> such as being barred from the US.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement on Thursday, the US State Department accused the vessel, seized by the UK outside of Gibraltar in early July, of \u201cassisting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) by transporting oil from Iran to Syria\u201d<\/em> \u2013 despite written assurances Tehran gave Gibraltar that the tanker\u2019s cargo of 2.1 million barrels of oil would not be unloaded in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington, which formally designated the elite IRGC a \u201cterrorist organization\u201d<\/em> earlier this year, noted that crew members of ships transporting Iranian oil may be \u201cineligible for visas or admission to the United States\u201d<\/em> under the terrorism-related provisions. Washington has long vowed to reduce Iranian oil exports to \u201czero,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0slapping the Islamic Republic with multiple rounds of crippling sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Will the U.S. follow through with air strikes? Will it impose yet more sanctions? Or will Iran struggle on and ignore Trump\u2019s increasingly hollow-sounding threats? <\/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":[58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193281","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=193281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193286,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193281\/revisions\/193286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}