{"id":47903,"date":"2019-08-19T09:14:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47903"},"modified":"2019-08-19T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:14:58","slug":"iran-warns-us-dont-interfere-with-tankers-passage-mulls-naval-escort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47903","title":{"rendered":"Iran Warns US: Don&#8217;t Interfere With Tanker&#8217;s Passage, Mulls Naval Escort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-08-19\/iran-warns-us-dont-interfere-tankers-passage-mulls-naval-escort\">Iran Warns US: Don&#8217;t Interfere With Tanker&#8217;s Passage, Mulls Naval Escort<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the Grace 1 now released after two failed attempts of Washington&nbsp;to bring&nbsp;the Iranian tanker under US custody, since renamed the Adrian Darya and flying the Iranian flag, Tehran officials are&nbsp;<strong>still refusing to confirm its ultimate destination where it will offload its 2.1 million barrels of oil<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday Iran&#8217;s foreign ministry issued new warnings to the United States not to mount any new attempt to seize the tanker. \u201cIf this is done or even stated, it is a threat to free shipping,\u201d a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/iranian-tanker-heads-to-greece-after-leaving-gibraltar-11566211250\">spokesman said<\/a>. \u201cThrough its official channels, and especially the Swiss embassy, Iran has warned U.S. officials not to make the mistake of doing so, as they face bad consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GBCNewsroom\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/917366175063072769\/YdHhQjVH_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GBCNewsroom\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GBCNewsroom\/status\/1163193819724169216\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;.and there she goes! After 46 days in Gibraltar Waters sparking an international incident with Iran, the Adrian Darya, formerly the Grace 1, is leaving&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/ext_tw_video_thumb\/1163193780973047808\/pu\/img\/bluqtx-Y61sf5jL0?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"Embedded video\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Per a breaking&nbsp;<em>Bloomberg&nbsp;<\/em>report, Iran issued a formal warning to the US via Switzerland to not interfere with the ship&#8217;s passage through international waters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said at a press conference in Helsinki while attending diplomatic meetings in Finland that&nbsp;<strong>Iran cannot be&nbsp;\u201cvery transparent\u201d about the tanker&#8217;s destination due to US sanctions<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the US is trying&nbsp;\u201cbully others from purchasing our oil\u201d but expressed hope the Gibraltar court&#8217;s release of the tanker would serve to deescalate tensions, according to&nbsp;<em>Bloomberg<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Adrian Darya&#8217;s shipping tracking data shows it intends to head to\u00a0Kalamata, Greece, with an arrival date of Aug. 25, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/iranian-tanker-heads-to-greece-after-leaving-gibraltar-11566211250\">reports<\/a>, where it&#8217;s likely to change crew and get fresh supplies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran Warns US: Don&#8217;t Interfere With Tanker&#8217;s Passage, Mulls Naval Escort With the Grace 1 now released after two failed attempts of Washington&nbsp;to bring&nbsp;the Iranian tanker under US custody, since renamed the Adrian Darya and flying the Iranian flag, Tehran officials are&nbsp;still refusing to confirm its ultimate destination where it will offload its 2.1 million [&hellip;]<\/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":[26543,441,588,26055,827],"class_list":["post-47903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-grace-1-oil-tanker","tag-iran","tag-oil","tag-oil-tanker","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47903","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=47903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47905,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47903\/revisions\/47905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}