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Tehran fumes as Britain seizes Iranian oil tanker over Syria sanctions

Evilroddy said:
Rogue Valley:

No, I read your whole article thoroughly but in some details it differed from other reports.

Gibraltar allows Iranian tanker Grace 1 to leave despite US detention request

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
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Seems that aspect (a US request) was not a certainty as portrayed.

The tanker Captain says he is done. Whether it stays or goes, he wants nothing more to do with it.

And my understanding is that Iran has guaranteed that the Grace-1 would not offload its oil cargo in Syria.
 
Grace 1 (now renamed Adrian Darya) has left Gib.

The US justified its demand for seizure by Grace being linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards (declared a terrorist organization by the US) but Gib. rejected the request on grounds of being bound by EU law which makes no such provision.
 
The BBC reports that the US Government offered bribes in the millions of dollars range to the captain of the Adrian Darya I (formerly the Grace I) tanker to sail it to any US-friendly port where it could be impounded. Is this legal or in breach of the laws of the seas?

What did the emails say?

According to the Financial Times, Mr Hook sent an email to the Indian captain of the Adrian Darya 1, Akhilesh Kumar, before it imposed sanctions on the ship.

"I am writing with good news," the email read. The Trump administration was willing to pay the captain several million dollars to take the ship somewhere it could be seized by US authorities.

The emails reportedly carried a state department phone number to make sure the captain - who took over the ship after it was impounded - did not think they were fake.
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Iran tanker: US offers captain millions to hand over ship - BBC News

Other reports seem to indicate that this is only part of a wider policy aimed at all shipping to/from Iran and that many more bribes are being offered.

When will other nations start offering bribes to US or UK shipping to divert them for their own interests?

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
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