Iran official calls for compensation for tanker seizure
04AM [Updated: Tue Aug 20, 2019 11:34AM ]/ Judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi says Iran should be compensated for the seizure of an oil supertanker off the coast of Gibraltar after it was released on Thursday. Britain’s naval forces seized the Grace 1 and its cargo of 2.1 million barrels of oil in the Strait of Gibraltar on July 4 under the pretext that the vessel might be carrying crude oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions on Damascus. Iran says the UK’s reason for confiscation is not valid because Tehran is not a member of the EU and ...
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