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“No Quid Pro Quo”: UK Rejects Iran’s Offer To Swap Seized Tankers<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Britain this week has rejected an Iranian offer to swap each other’s captured tankers<\/strong>, as the crisis involving the British-flagged Stena Impero and the Iranian oil filled Grace 1 previously captured by Royal Marines off Gibraltar on July 4 has remained deadlocked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most observers agree it’s virtually a “foregone conclusion”<\/a> that the tankers will ultimately be traded for one another, however, UK officials are still stalling over what they say are the norms of international law.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is no quid pro quo,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab\u00a0asserted on\u00a0BBC radio<\/a>. \u201cThis is not about some kind of barter. This is about the international law and the rules of the international legal system being upheld and that is what we will insist on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UK Royal Marine aboard the Grace 1. Image released by the Ministry of Defence, via BBC.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In boarding the Grace 1 on July 4 just as it sought to enter the Mediterranean, British authorities claimed to have thwarted illegal EU sanctions busting related to Syria, as the Grace 1 was reportedly bound for the Syrian port of Baniyas to offload some 2 million barrels of oil to the fuel-starved, war-torn country. Leaders in Tehran accused the UK of simply doing America’s bidding, however. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last Wednesday Iran’s president initially suggested an equal good faith swap of sorts. He proposed that should the UK release the Grace 1, Iran would do likewise and immediately release the Stena Impero. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If Britain steps away from the wrong actions in Gibraltar, they will receive an appropriate response from\u00a0Iran,”<\/strong>\u00a0Rouhani said\u00a0Wednesday addressing a weekly cabinet meeting. The words came the same day Britain had\u00a0reportedly sent<\/a>\u00a0a mediator to Iran seeking to negotiate the ship’s return and its 23 detained crew members.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“No Quid Pro Quo”: UK Rejects Iran’s Offer To Swap Seized Tankers Britain this week has rejected an Iranian offer to swap each other’s captured tankers, as the crisis involving the British-flagged Stena Impero and the Iranian oil filled Grace 1 previously captured by Royal Marines off Gibraltar on July 4 has remained deadlocked.  Most observers agree […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26393,441,1172,26392,2080,4318],"class_list":["post-47533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-grace-1","tag-iran","tag-oil-tankers","tag-stena-impero","tag-united-kingdom","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47534,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47533\/revisions\/47534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}