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Britain Furious Iran Tanker Broke\u00a0‘Promise’ Not To Sell Its Oil To Syria<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Britain has slammed Iran for what it says is a breach in assurances regarding the previously detained Grace 1\/Adrian Darya 1 tanker. Specifically a condition of the vessel’s release from UK\/Gibraltar captivity last month was that it would not offload its 2.1 million barrels of Iranian oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the UK can do little beyond merely issuing a formal complaint to the United Nations, which it plans to do next month, according to Reuters<\/a>. London was also reported to have summoned Iran’s ambassador on Tuesday to condemn the move<\/strong>. Image via EPA-EFE<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIran has shown complete disregard for its own assurances over Adrian Darya 1,\u201d<\/strong> foreign minister Dominic Raab said in a statement. \u201cThis sale of oil to (Syrian President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s) brutal regime is part of a pattern of behavior by the Government of Iran designed to disrupt regional security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The diplomatic row comes days after over the weekend Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed<\/a> the tanker had unloaded its valuable cargo, estimated at $130 million in crude, “on the Mediterranean coast,” according to state media. Just prior the Iranian tanker was observed within a few nautical miles of Syria’s coast via satellite images. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIran\u2019s actions represent an unacceptable violation of international norms,\u201d the UK statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, we should point out it’s also not within “international norms” – indeed it’s unprecedented – for Royal Marines to raid a foreign vessel in international waters at the bidding of Washington, which is precisely what happen when the tanker was detained in the first place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, Tehran is rumored to be preparing the release the British-flagged Stena Impero<\/strong>, captured in the Strait of Hormuz on July 19 in retaliation for Britain’s prior capture of the Grace 1 off Gibraltar on July 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Britain Furious Iran Tanker Broke\u00a0‘Promise’ Not To Sell Its Oil To Syria Britain has slammed Iran for what it says is a breach in assurances regarding the previously detained Grace 1\/Adrian Darya 1 tanker. Specifically a condition of the vessel’s release from UK\/Gibraltar captivity last month was that it would not offload its 2.1 million […]<\/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":[3,5],"tags":[26583,93,279,26543,776],"class_list":["post-48384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-adrian-darya","tag-britain","tag-eu","tag-grace-1-oil-tanker","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48384","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=48384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48385,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48384\/revisions\/48385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}