US makes last-minute move to seize Iranian supertanker detained in Gibraltar
The U.S. has a made a last-minute move to seize an supertanker that was captured in Gibraltar last month by authorities who suspect the vessel was trying to provide crude oil to Bashar Assad’s Syrian regime in violation of European Union sanctions./ Gibraltar’s government announced Thursday that its Supreme Court adjourned a scheduled decision on whether to release the Grace 1 ship until later in the day after it received notice that the U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to extend its detention./ The Iranian vessel has been held in the ...
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