Iran Threatens British Shipping In Retaliation For Tanker Seizure

Iran gets caught trying to ship oil to Syria which is against an EU sanction. I say offload the oil and give the ship back to Iran.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...retaliation-for-tanker-seizure-idUSKCN1U00S5?

LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander threatened on Friday to seize a British ship in retaliation for the capture of an Iranian supertanker in Gibraltar by Royal Marines.

 

Why give the ship back to Iran? Let British sell it and keep the money for the trouble.

 

Tony Blair was Bush's lackey. Evidently, the current UK government is following in Blair's footsteps in provoking more ME conflict.

 

They are desperate for something to take people's attention away from the mess they are making of the country with Brexit! We also always seem to never give them the benefit of the doubt. Some years ago I heard that in Iran whenever anything went wrong they blamed the British.

 

Well, you can cower in fear of Iran but the rest of the world shouldn't.

 

Do you believe the rest of the world has your view on Iran?

 

Well, certainly not Russia.

 

I think very few do. In fact the only ones I can think of are Israel, UAE and Saudi Arabia.

 

no need to fear Iran as they are not the ones provoking war - it is the USA which is doing so

 

Death to America. Death to Israel. Iran is so peace loving.

 

Why should he care?

 

2 million barrels of crude oil. It's roughly the amount of their daily oil export.

I have read that Iran is already running out of storage to keep their oil.

Good job. But there is more work to be done.

 

From your link:

Gibraltar said on Thursday it had reasonable grounds to believe the Grace 1 was carrying crude oil to the Baniyas refinery in Syria.

All well and good but:

Abu Dhabi, UAEFriday 5 July 2019
Mysterious blasts off Syria's coast disrupt Iran oil delivery

July 4, 2019
A mysterious attack on pipelines off Syria’s coast, which a Syrian official said was conducted with the help of a foreign state, disrupted an Iranian crude oil delivery.

On June 22, explosive devices damaged underwater pipelines used to deliver crude oil from tankers to the Baniyas refinery, in the western Syrian governorate of Tartus, causing an oil spill, the official Syrian news agency Sana reported.

The sabotage was “qualitative and professional”, the deputy head of the Syrian Company for Oil Transport told a local radio station, adding that a foreign state co-ordinated with the perpetrators to send a message to Damascus.

TankerTrackers.com, a US company that closely follows Iranian oil shipments to Syria, saw the Iranian-flagged Stark I oil tanker arriving off the Baniyas coast a day after blasts disabled the pipelines.

The vessel briefly turned on its transponder in the Suez Canal on June 19, but otherwise has been offline since May 12, when it was seen off Iran’s Larak Island, an export point for Iranian crude, TankerTrackers.com said.

The Stark I sailed into position to offload its crude through the pipelines to the Baniyas refinery by June 27, the website said.

A pipeline below the tanker appeared to be still damaged at the time.

The pro-Syrian government Al Watannewspaper reported that a tanker that arrived at Baniyas was unable to discharge its cargo because of the pipeline damage, leading the Baniyas refinery to cease operations on June 25 as repairs were under way.

TankerTrackers co-founder Samir Madani said that, in the short term, the sabotage of the pipelines does little to slow down Iranian deliveries, but might prompt Syria to increase coastal defence.

“It seems that someone was trying to send both Tehran and Damascus a message," Mr Madani said. "If they can take out the pipelines, what’s next?”

https://www.thenational.ae/world/me...ia-s-coast-disrupt-iran-oil-delivery-1.882582

Not to mention that Spain only ceded the port of Gibraltar to the Brits and not its territorial waters.

 

Thats theft and would allow Iran to do same with british property.

 

I find it amusing the self proclaimed "heros of democracy" want to starve millions of people to death.

Good that INSTEX is running now. Should be expanded to buy iranian oil, so EU and others can buy it.

 

Nobody fears Iran. Its our partner.

Meanwhile Germany, Spain and France called upon the UK to release the ship.

The UK has no right to stop a ship inside spanish waters.

 

I get it, you partner with supporters of terrorism.

 

No, we dont partner with USA. Where did you get that?

 

You are jealous British have control of who enters and leaves Mediterranean via Gibraltar.
They have the right to do what they want. It’s their territory.

 

LOL, poor deflection.

 

And the spanish have control over who enters Gibraltar and occassional lock it down. I think now is the time to do it again. Its always amsuing to see ranting brits, when the spanish let them wait 30 hours at border checkpoints.

 

Its not a poor deflection, its a fact. USA supported Al Nusra, IS and other terror organisations.

I guess you are mad at Iran, because they killed all your terror swines in Iraq and Syria.

 

Exactly. Iran has never attacked any of its neighbours.

US and Israel on the other hand make it their business to attack anyone anywhere with no regard for international law and to kill people in the tens of thousands just through sanctions alone.

Then they whine that people in the countries they attack and repress with sanctions don't like them.

 

Here you are celebrating German deaths in Iraq and Syria.

 

Nothing like the optics of the left defending and celebrating a theocracy.