Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made comments about the capture of oil
tankers during his weekly cabinet meeting, and hinted at the possibility
of a tanker swap with Britain to resolve the situation.
Britain seized Iran’s Grace 1 tanker early this month near Gibraltar, and then Iran seized a British tanker last week. Rouhani said that if Britain steps away from its “wrong actions” in Gibraltar, they could expect an appropriate response.
Which isn’t a direct offer to trade, but it’s close enough that all
analysts are interpreting it as such. Iran has also reported that they
have received a British mediator who was sent to address the fate of the
tanker.
This again suggests that a swap is likely. Though the British mediator
was said just to be addressing the British tanker, it is clear what
direction any deal is going to have to go to be palatable for Iran. If
Britain isn’t prepared to at least consider that, they wouldn’t bother
with a mediator, and would rather just protest at the diplomatic level.
Never happen, it makes too much sense. LOL!! Time we leave Iran alone and should have kept the original Obama agreement in place,,but as we know BiBI told Sock Puppet Trump to cancel it.
Well, besides Bibi, there was never so much as a piece of paper signed by Obama that doesn’t warrant shredding according to Mitch “No Actual Policy” McConnell and the Never-Hillaries.
In addition, Trump hates anything that doesn’t have *his* name prominently plastered all over it.
Mprk,,Whatever you say Bro’……:) (lol).
My deal would be to stop sanctioning Iran let them do what they want to do . But if they start enriching uranium to a high level again destroy their equipment . This is exactly what Israel intends to do . This should be easy to do with all the spies we have in Iran . Who knows maybe their equipment will just self destruct . This would hurt Iran the least and of course would never happen because Iran says they are not working on nuclear weapons and don’t even want nuclear weapons .
“But if they start enriching uranium to a high level again”
In order to start enriching uranium to a high level again, they would have to have enriched uranium to a high level in the first place. So far as anyone knows, the highest level to which they’ve enriched uranium is approximately 1/20th weapons grade.
Don’t let the facts get in the way of imminent mushroom clouds…;?)
“This should be easy to do with all the spies we have in Iran”
Yeah, well all the spies we allegedly had in Iran – including allegedly US Special Forces teams who planted radiation detection gear all over the place – have never found any evidence of Iran enriching to a high level. Neither has Israeli intelligence, despite what Netanyahu babbles about. Virtually everyone outside of Trump, Netanyahu, and the neocons knows that Iran does not have and never has had a nuclear weapons program. And none of those three parties even cares about that – that’s just the excuse for regime change.
eric,,And we just go on with Israel having 200 nukes they stole from the USA????,,,ain’t gonna fly,,Bro’.
So they do a swap. So what? What matters is what happens next. Does the US force Britain to seize another tanker? Does the US decide to start seizing tankers itself? How else is Trump going to get his “no Iranian oil shipments” goal?
“How else is Trump going to get his “no Iranian oil shipments” goal?”
He’s not going to. And truth be told he doesn’t have to, he just has to push it to the brink — without crossing the line — in order to mollify Bibi and Sheldon.
That’s a fantasy. Neither can be appeased short of regime change in Iran and neither can the neocons.
An eye for an eye, a boat for a boat. Sounds fair to me.
Garnished with a bit of crow.