Gibraltar has decided that they intend to release the Grace 1, an
Iranian oil tanker seized by British forces in early July. That release happened Thursday in spite of the US legal efforts, though the Grace 1 has not actually left port yet.
It’s not clear what the US claim for trying to seize the ship is,
beyond officials saying they view the tanker as Iranian trade to Syria,
and they don’t like both of those things. Britain said they were given
advanced notice of this effort.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif accused the US of attempted piracy, and of “trying to abuse the legal system to steal our property.” The tanker’s owner indicated that the ship is planning to head to Mediterranean ports as soon as they are properly out of port.
Interestingly, Iran appeared to also have some advanced knowledge of this, with Iranian media reporting that
the Grace 1 was to be released Tuesday. Gibraltar denied there were any
such plans, but there clearly were until the US got involved.
Tankers 1 -,Wankers 0
Ha Ha HA HA !!
I think a few more nations need to step up to the plate against the US, to show them that they do not control the World.
Always include the Brits with the USA, Andy. Now that crazy Boris is PM he’ll do anything the banksters and Zionists want him to do, regardless of how detached from objective reality it is. When a nation goes out of its way to ignore objective reality, they deserve anything that comes their way.
True Thomas but the Brits were lapdogs before Boris.
They don’t call us the Anglo-Zionist Empire for nothing.
We have our wingnut, and now they have theirs. What could possibly go wrong….
I totally agree Thomas, the UK was once the “big dog”, now we are the brown nosed puppy.
More proof that not only Bonkers Bolton is trying to push the US into war with Iran, but also Trump. Trump has to be fully aware of this attempt to seize the ship – even he can’t be that cut out of what is going on in his administration.