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Iranian Tanker Showdown Heads To Turkey<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian tanker which had been detained for the past five weeks in Gilbraltar has suddenly switched its ship data to show it is headed to a Turkish port, instead of arriving at waters off southern Greece<\/strong>, as previously planned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters has cited<\/a> real-time ship tracking website MarineTraffic to show the change in the Adrian Darya’s (formerly called Grace 1) destination. This after the US State Department threatened<\/a> that should Greece provide any aid or facilities to the vessel carrying 2.1 million barrels of Iranian oil, it would be tantamount to “material support to terrorism”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Unites States says the tanker is controlled by\u00a0the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and thus deems any state’s interaction with it support of a formally designated terrorist group.\u00a0There’s still\u00a0an active US seizure warrant for the vessel.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Adrian Darya (formerly called Grace 1) supertanker’s destination is now southern Turkey. File image.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While the vessel never planned to actually enter a Greek port, listed as the port of Kalamata \u2014 <\/em>especially given the overladen supertanker sits too low in the water \u2014 <\/em>it’s been widely reported that a ship-to-ship transfer of the oil was to occur off its southern coast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A US Statement Department statement issued Monday had warned Greece’s help could be considered\u00a0\u201cproviding material support to a US-designated foreign terrorist organization\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014\u00a0<\/em>this according to a\u00a0State Department official who spoke\u00a0to\u00a0Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Iranian Tanker Showdown Heads To Turkey The Iranian tanker which had been detained for the past five weeks in Gilbraltar has suddenly switched its ship data to show it is headed to a Turkish port, instead of arriving at waters off southern Greece, as previously planned.  Reuters has cited real-time ship tracking website MarineTraffic to show the change in […]<\/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":[26583,441,17483,26055,818,827],"class_list":["post-47940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-adrian-darya","tag-iran","tag-iranian-revolutionary-guard","tag-oil-tanker","tag-turkey","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47940","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=47940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47941,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47940\/revisions\/47941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}