The U.K.'s foreign minister 'expressed extreme disappointment' at the oil tanker seizure, while his Iranian counterpart said the move was legal, unlike the 'piracy' that targeted his own country's
Friday for a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, also expressed his views of the situation on Twitter. In his post, he referenced the U.K.'s seizure of Panamanian-flagged, Iranian-owned supertanker, which was accused of attempting to transport oil through U.K.-controlled Gibraltar to Syria in an alleged violation of European Union sanctions.—revealed shortly after that the U.K. operation was conducted at the request of the U.S.
"Unlike the piracy in the Strait of Gibraltar, our action in the Persian Gulf is to uphold int'l maritime rules. As I said in NY, it is IRAN that guarantees the security of the Persian Gulf & the Strait of Hormuz. UK must cease being an accessory to #EconomicTerrorism of the US," Zarif tweeted Saturday.
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also accused the U.K. of"piracy" over what occurred in Gibraltar. He and other senior Iranian officials have threatened to retaliate, but denied an alleged previous incident last week in which the U.S. claimed Iran's Revolutionary Guards attempted to take theAs the U.K. and Iran's feud played out on social media Friday, Iran's Revolutionary Guards released new footage of the raid on the.
A U.K. patrol ship is seen near Iranian supertanker Grace 1 off the coast of Gibraltar, July 6. Tehran has demanded that the U.K. immediately release an oil tanker, which it denied was carrying oil to Syria, something it said it should be allowed to do anyway as Iran was not subject to EU sanctions.
Iran has denied these allegations but did announce the seizure of another, smaller tanker, the Panamanian-flagged, UAE-based, which the Revolutionary Guards accused of smuggling fuel. The elite Iranian force also shot down a U.S. Navy Global Hawk spy drone last month, but dismissed allegations that it lost an unmanned aircraft system of its own to
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