Iran blasts Britain’s ‘piracy’ after Royal Marines detain oil tanker in Gibraltar

Iran blasts Britain’s ‘piracy’ after Royal Marines detain oil tanker in Gibraltar

Britain has been plunged into a diplomatic row with Iran after Royal Marines seized an Iranian oil tanker as it passed through the Strait of Gibraltar, in a move likely to further inflame tensions in the Gulf. 

The Grace 1 super-tanker was boarded in the early hours of Thursday morning to prevent it from delivering a cargo of crude oil to Syria in defiance of EU sanctions, apparently…

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