On Monday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Tehran summoned a Swiss diplomat over the discharging of a tanker carrying Iranian oil that was seized by the United States.
Kanaani said Iran summoned the chargé d’affaires at the Swiss embassy to express “strong objection” to the move to Switzerland, which acts as a mediator between the US and Iran.
“The subject of the seizure of an Iranian oil consignment by the US … is a completely unproductive action,” Kanaani said. He noted how the US was expressing interest in a renewed nuclear deal while also increasing sanctions and seizing Iranian oil shipments.
The tanker Suez Rajan was estimated to be carrying 800,000 barrels of Iranian oil and was forced by the US to sail to Texas instead of China under the pretext of sanctions enforcement. The Suez Rajan transferred the cargo to another tanker, MR Euphrates, which is currently moored in Houston.
The Suez Rajan was stuck off the coast of Galveston for months as American companies were hesitant to unload the cargo due to fears of Iranian reprisals. The US seizure of the Suez Rajan in April provoked the Iranian seizure of two tankers in the Persian Gulf.
The US responded to the Iranian seizures by increasing its military presence in the region, including sending over 3,000 US Marines and Navy sailors as part of an Amphibious Readiness Group/Marine Expeditionary Unit. The US is also considering putting armed troops on commercial vessels.
Wash. has made America into an international pirate state. Seems they’re doing everything they can to make Russia, China and Iran fire the first shot as an excuse for WWIII. And the dumb American public will wave their flags when they’re told by the state that it’s better to fight them over there than in Main St. The Vietnam generation heard that one and actually believed it, but I don’t thing the succeeding generations will.
The current generation would do the same thing…! Another words, the brainwashed pro war people would surpass the educated anti war ones…!
IF Russia, China, North Korea (Iran has no nukes) fired off thousands at once, the U.S. would be flat, black and glow in the dark.
Americas worst night mare is Russia / China joining together in a military pact that would see them fighting together against America / NATO , to be honest i wish they would , it would make the yanks think twice about it`s war mongering and scare the shit out of the NATO LACKEYS .
imagine being a translator between the Suisse and Farsi languages
This is what happens with Empires they have to steal anything they can to keep the Empire going down the centuries every Empire has done this and when they reach the point of running out of resources to steal the Empire begins to fail then they resort to war mongering before it collapse completely , the last Empire to collapse was the British Empire which is fast becoming a third world country because it now spends more than it earns , with borrowing going off the scale .
This was a legal complain which is expected to have no response from Swiss embassy (US)…. The Iran reaction would then be surfaced soon…!