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In what has become an Alanis Morissette-level irony, the US is now back on the brink of all-out war with Iran, less than one week after the administration's biggest Iran hawk was shown the door. Having read the writing on the wall, the Iranians have decided to release a UK-flagged oil tanker that they have had in detention for nearly two months, Bloomberg reports.
The decision to release the UK tanker comes a few weeks after Britain released the Iranian-flagged Grace 1/Adrian Darya 1 tanker, a decision that the UK swiftly came to regret after the tanker appeared to violate assurances that it wouldn't deliver its cargo of oil to Syria (violating EU sanctions in the process).
The UK tanker, the Stena Impero, will be released "in days," according to Abbas Mousavi, spokesman at the foreign ministry in Tehran. The judicial process to clear the ship for release is nearly finished, and once it's done, the ship can leave Iran.
Iran seized the ship on July 19 in retaliation for the UK's seizure of the Adrian Darya 1.
More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/ir...y-wholeheartedly-condemns-attack-saudi-arabia
The decision to release the UK tanker comes a few weeks after Britain released the Iranian-flagged Grace 1/Adrian Darya 1 tanker, a decision that the UK swiftly came to regret after the tanker appeared to violate assurances that it wouldn't deliver its cargo of oil to Syria (violating EU sanctions in the process).
The UK tanker, the Stena Impero, will be released "in days," according to Abbas Mousavi, spokesman at the foreign ministry in Tehran. The judicial process to clear the ship for release is nearly finished, and once it's done, the ship can leave Iran.
Iran seized the ship on July 19 in retaliation for the UK's seizure of the Adrian Darya 1.
More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/ir...y-wholeheartedly-condemns-attack-saudi-arabia
