Described by the Justice Department as the largest fuel shipment from Iran ever taken, the US is slowly shipping the gasoline up the coast to New Jersey. Officials want to sell it, but that’s a legal issue that the Justice Department has yet to sort out.
Four gasoline tankers were seized by the US, to prevent delivery to Venezuela. The way the administration figures it, it’s Iranian gas, so it belongs to the Revolutionary Guards, which gives them a license to take it and sell it.
The actual owners of the gasoline disagree, saying they own the gasoline, not Iran, and that the US can’t just take it. The US has just taken it, to be clear, but they have to get through court to be allowed to sell it.
Evidence of where the gas came from and where it’s going doesn’t seem cut and dried, and the US seems to have bet on no one challenging this if they made the accusation publicly. The legal battle could be expensive and likely will cost more than the gasoline is worth, but those who seized it got to brag about the biggest ever seizure for awhile.
Piracy is Ok. So is outright thieving under the present US government.
Donald Trump and the Latterday Pirates.
it is gasoline so it is already refined and probably worth a great deal more than oil. no wonder uncle samuel is slobbering over this prize.
anyway, doesn’t this piracy BS just make yalls proud to be patriots!
Legal barriers? This is a joke surely. The US Empire makes its own rules. It’s already committed piracy in seizing the tanker.