Iran’s recent seizure of a US-bound oil tanker came after the Biden administration forced a tanker carrying Iranian oil to deliver the cargo to the US instead of China, Financial Times reported Friday.
Using the pretext of sanctions enforcement, the US Justice Department seized the tanker Suez Rajan with a court order with the cooperation of one company involved with the vessel after it was loaded with Iranian oil.
According to Reuters, the US confiscation of an Iranian oil shipment came five days before Iran seized a US-bound Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker, the Advantage Sweet, near Oman. For their part, Iranian officials said they took the Advantage Sweet after it collided with an Iranian fishing vessel and tried to flee the area.
A US official told Financial Times that the seizure of the Advantage Sweet “appears to be in retaliation for a prior US seizure of Iranian oil, which Iran recently attempted to get back but failed.”
The US has a history of seizing tankers carrying Iranian oil and gas and outright stealing the cargo by selling it off for profit. Iran has also previously seized tankers in retaliation for US actions.
Last year, the US seized a tanker carrying Iranian oil in Greece and attempted to take the cargo, but a Greek court ruled against the confiscation. Tehran seized two Greek tankers in response to the US move and released them after the court’s ruling.
In 2021, the US government sold 2 million barrels of Iranian oil for $110 million from a tanker seized near the UAE. During the Trump administration, the US sold off Iranian gas that was bound for Venezuela.
Iran has a basic policy of getting even, as they should.
I agree- don’t get mad, get even. Iranians have a long memory, too.
i also have a long memory, and it goes back even further than the time when the republicans perpetrated the giant insurance scam, along with the pentagon and the NY port authority mafia, that was 9/11.
Where can I find a fuller delineated statement, article, speech or book to get the gist of what you allude. Do you believe that the plane crashed in Shanks- ville was planned to crash into Bldg 11 ??
much of the videos/photos/analyses of the self-called “9/11 truthers” has been eliminated from the internet.
however, myself and many other people have determined that flight 93 did not crash in shanksville, in fact maybe not anywhere = http://flight93hoax.blogspot.com/
and there was no Bldg 11 – there were only 7 WTC buildings.
“”Iran’s recent seizure of a US-bound oil tanker came after the Biden administration forced a tanker carrying Iranian oil to deliver the cargo to the US instead of China.
According to Reuters, the US confiscation of an Iranian oil shipment came five days before Iran seized a US-bound Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker””
good job Dave DeCamp, writer of this article.
now be advised that US had previously seized another Iranian oil tanker, either last year or the year before, so this latest one was not the first act of piracy on the part of US.
now consider that US has been overtly stealing Syria’s oil as soon as it has been pumped from the ground since the Trump administration has been in office, so let’s not point all of the piracy fingers at Biden.
Yes. Trump broke all the rules with respect to Iran. He broke a treaty “because he thought he could have negotiated a better one”. He popularized the notion of secondary sanctions (sanctioning businesses outside of Iran for failure to conform with our own sanctions), and summarily stole oil and other assets. That Iran was in compliance with the JCPOA when Trump did this rubs salt into the wound.
It seems obvious now that Biden answers to some of the important people who supported Trump. He’s put the “America First” agenda on steroids. But Biden spends considerably more resources trying to soften his image than Trump did. (The image control is working. I believe that historians will one day label Biden’s sanctions as Fascist.)
Don’t forget the Democrat party at one time during the “Progressive” era just loved how “the trains ran on time” and other wonderful things.
Modern day tribalism with hard orthodoxy isn’t much different than the old descriptor “Nationalism” after all.
What intriges me is the tidbit where they share, ” with the cooperation of one company involved” with that ship.
Was that a strongarm to get the “cooperation”
Was it a friend?
Who is that company?
Perhaps that might tell us more
What the hell is Biden doing? Seizing tankers? Already at proxy war with Russia? Trying his hardest to start a war with China over Taiwan? And now trying to start a war with Iran at the SAME TIME? Dotard Biden is continuing all of Dotard Trump’s terrible foreign policies. What’s all the fighting over 2020 again? Nothing changed for the better.
For every illegal US action there is a reaction from some gutsy countries…! There are only a few gutsy countries in the world right now to stand up for themselves against US crimes but this incident would definitely encourage others…!
So that hit-and-run claim was just a pretext?
They didn’t want to directly confront with real reasons for that seizure?
Should have known….
There’s a lot going on behind the scences.
Nothing in that part of the world ever is clearcut and their media that really does not like us in some venues will spew bs just like our MSM will.
Kudos to Dave DeCamp for using the right word… “Stole”…!
The US is an international outlaw state, practicing wars of aggression, using banned weapons, torture of prisoners, arbitrary and indefinite imprisonment, seizing assets, and economic warfare on a massive scale against civilian populations to force regime change.
High way robbers……
Dangerous Fools as well as petty thrives. Not a good image for a state fallen down the list of top tier defender of the rules that prevent general chaos & piracy. How long before one of these seizures triggers a shoot out,,,???? Could all these reckless extraterritorial strikes will get an unpleasant, hypersonic surprise?? “There are no fools like old fools comes to mind when Nordstrom’s is added. The Spector of reckless acts causing dangerous acts should never be business as usual in these hypersonic and thermonuclear times,