A bipartisan group of senators is urging President Biden to facilitate the transfer of stolen Iranian oil that has been stuck on a tanker off the coast of Texas.
The tanker Suez Rajan was seized by the US government in April under the pretext of sanctions relief and was forced to sail to Texas instead of China. The tanker is carrying 800,000 barrels of Iranian oil, but US companies are hesitant to discharge the cargo over fears of Iranian reprisals in the Persian Gulf. It has been stuck near Galveston since May 30.
According to Reuters, Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and several other members of the Senate and House told President Biden in a letter that sanctions would become ineffective if American companies were worried about Iranian retaliation.
“It is imperative that the Administration make clear that Iran and designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations cannot prevent our government from carrying out legitimate law enforcement operations,” the lawmakers said. They asked for a briefing from the administration on the progress of discharging the oil.
The US seizure of the Suez Rajan provoked the Iranian seizure of two tankers in the Persian Gulf. The US responded by beefing up its military presence in the waters and is now considering placing armed troops on commercial vessels, a move that risks a direct clash with Iran.
Theft is as American as apple pie.
“A bipartisan group of lawmakers” declare THEFT a “legitimate law enforcement operation.” It’s the law. (Sarcasm)
Might as well steal this oil as well.
“Would become ineffective”?
When did they become effective?
Don’t you actually need them to be effective before they become ineffective?
A moron who goes SENILE can be a terrible danger to the country they run…!!!!!!!
Where do the senators propose the oil be offloaded to? Where will it be discharged? Who would get it?
I don’t believe Amerikkka thought this through very well when it pirated the tanker.
What the f*ck’s new.
“to think” would be news. The nations establishment is intellectually and morally totally bankrupt.
Nothing to be proud of the bipartisanship. The best democracy money can buy.
Riiight Lysi…what was I thinking? 😁
The Rules based international order…piracy.
Any person who is currently in elected office and does not resign is complicit in crime. The length of time such people have been in office measures the depth of their cowardly crimes against humanity and life on Earth,
uncle sam high-jacked that oil for a pittance, as it is only worth $66.4 million.
don’t even need that oil since more oil is exported from america every single day than is imported.
The money is irrelevant; it’s the ‘optics’ that count. If we’re risking a war over a tanker full of oil, we’re doing war wrong.
The USA/NATO and Ukrainians are self-destructing for a NATO membership the Ukrainian people NEVER wanted. They are at war and annihilating the country and nation just for a lousy NATO membership because some neocon idiots say so.
War is profitable business.
These politicians are thieves and should not be trusted.
Who trusts them? No honorable states man or woman would trust them.
The U.S. Senate is filled with deluded, narcissists.
It is true of the whole congress, elected and appointed officials, a government without honor.
“The Legitimate Law Enforcement Operations”….! Yeh, let complete our theft one hundred per cent…!
I smiled at the notion that seizing the Suez Rajan was a legitimate law enforcement operation.
The USA has become a PRIAH nation.
No country needs a regime change more than the USA and Ukraine.
A demented old man and a a clown are running the show, but who is really de facto in charge of the nation?
“who is really de facto in charge of the nation?”
Judging by current circumstances, it must someone or some entity with great fear/hatred of Iran and Syria. Three guesses is two too many.
I would say those who manufacture weapons of destruction…
Every time Richard Blumenthal is associated with anything,, sleaze ball comes to mind.
Bloomie has always been a warmonger; but Joni is relatively new.
Rightster, it’s never too late for a Murkin to become a warmonger!
##stealing other countries resources is in the American DNA they have been stealing for 3 hundred years .
theft? its the american way.