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2019/07/21 14:44
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News of Iranian forces incursion into a district in Arbil and arrest 11 people

BAGHDAD / Masala: A source in the province of Arbil, Sunday 21 July 2019, that Iranian forces have penetrated into a district of the province, and arrested 11 people.

The source said in an interview with local media that "Iranian forces penetrated in the area of Haji Omran, of the district of Juman in Erbil, and opened fire on shepherds were in the area."

He added that "Iranian forces confiscated 430 cattle, and arrested 11 people before withdrawing into Iran."

The source pointed out that "intensive contacts were conducted by the authorities of the Kurdistan region to release the detainees."

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Zarif: America resorted to economic terrorism in order to achieve its objectives

Economy | 09:36 - 21/07/2019

 
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday condemned the unilateralism of the United States and its economic terrorism today. 
"The US government is resorting to one of the forms of pressure we call economic terrorism," Zarif said. 
"Both Cuba, Syria, Venezuela and Iran are suffering from this economic terrorism, especially through sanctions," Zarif said. 
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the country's highest authority, has expressed opposition to negotiations with the United States. "We have no credibility with the United States and we will not negotiate with them," he said.
Iran has recently suspended some of its obligations in the nuclear deal, and has threatened that if European countries fail to meet their interests by agreement, additional steps will be taken. This is a subject that has been strongly criticized by France, Britain and Germany as European members. The United States, which withdrew last year from this, Agreement, the Iranian move as "blackmail"

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British Foreign Ministry summons Iranian charge d'affaires

British Foreign Ministry summons Iranian charge d'affaires
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 20 July 2019 04:37 PM

The Iranian Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the Iranian charge d'affaires had been summoned to discuss the status of the oil tanker "Stina Impero" held by the regime in Tehran .

British Defense Minister Benny Murdont said Iran was holding the British oil tanker in Omani waters as "hostile action," according to the Middle East News Agency (MENA ).

On Friday, Iran's Revolutionary Guard detained two British oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, weeks after the Royal Marines seized an Iranian ship suspected of transporting fuel to Syria .

An Iranian media has hinted today that the British oil tanker has left its coast to the Saudi ports .

The Revolutionary Guard's Marine Corps (PRT) 1st Marine Zone Force unit detained a British oil tanker named Stina Ambo during its passage from the Strait of Hormuz due to its non-compliance with international maritime laws at the request of the Ports and Maritime Organization in the province of Hormuzgan .

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The disappearance of one billion euros in Iran for import

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The head of the office of Iranian President Hassan Rowhani said in a speech to ministers of industry, agriculture and public health that one billion euros ($ 1.12 billion) earmarked for importing drugs and commodities had "disappeared".

Mahmoud Faisi, head of the office of the Iranian presidency, asked in the letter to explain what happened to the imports promised by those who received foreign currency at the government exchange rate, the Jerusalem Post reported Sunday.

Due to the sharp devaluation of the Iranian currency in recent years, the government now allocates foreign currencies at cheaper exchange rates for importers of medicines, foodstuffs, raw materials and other commodities that are already approved.

These importers are obliged to purchase and transport goods previously approved to Iran.

The official exchange rate in Iran is 42,000 riyals against the dollar, but the market price is about 130,000 riyals against the dollar at the beginning of July, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The official price is aimed at protecting Iranian consumers from sharp jumps in prices because of US sanctions on Iran.

But Vaisy said about 849 million euros earmarked for the import of "commodities" and another $ 130 million earmarked for drugs, which were granted to companies, had "disappeared", according to the daily Al Sharq.

He accused 20 companies of not importing the goods they promised to bring to the country legally.

The head of the presidential office also sent the letter to the Central Bank of Iran and demanded legal action on the issue.

Health Minister Said Namaki has reportedly arrested a group of ministry officials for complicity in corruption plots involving the import of medicines and medical equipment, the Jerusalem Post said.

Some importers had received 2 million euros to import heart pumps, but they instead imported electric cables and fled the country, he said.

Earlier in July, Radio Farda reported that Iran had spent government funds earmarked for essential medical supplies on cigarette imports.

$ 170 million has been allocated from the government-subsidized currency to import tobacco, while another $ 16 million has been allocated for the import of cigarette paper, according to Deputy Health Minister Alireza Reissi.

The money was supposed to be spent on the import of basic medical supplies, al-Rissi said.

https://www.shafaaq.com/ar/اقتصـاد/اختفاء-مليار-يورو-في-ايران-مخصصة-للاستيراد/

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Iranians demand fundamental political and economic change

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It is critical for the international community to pay attention to the voices and demands of the Iranian people in order to form policies more efficiently.

What is the public opinion in Iran regarding the political and economic systems? Some foreign polls, conducted through limited questions or phone interviews, may indicate that Iranians are solely dissatisfied with the economic situation rather than the political establishment.

But it is important to point out that it is extremely difficult to conduct accurate polls and obtain public opinion under the repressive rule of the Iranian regime. The voices of Iranians living under Iran’s theocratic and authoritarian rule can be better understood through the people’s true expressions in public and private spaces. 

In the last couple of years, we have witnessed tens of thousands of Iranians pouring on to the streets of cities across the country to protest against corruption, the thievery and tyranny of the ruling theocracy, and its funding of proxy armies and terrorists across the region.

We have heard how protesters echoed national sentiments with chants of “death to the dictator”, “death to (Supreme Leader Ali) Khamenei”, “death to (President Hassan) Rouhani”, “reformists, hardliners, your game is now over”, “mullahs, have shame and let go of our country”, and “we will die but will take our country back.”

Protests and demonstrations against the political and economic systems are continuing in Iran, although they have been receiving less attention from mainstream media outlets, partially thanks to other major news, such as Iran’s nuclear defiance and destabilizing behavior in the Strait of Hormuz. This includes attacking, sabotaging and seizing oil tankers, such as the Japanese Kokuka Courageous and Norwegian Front Altair, whose crews had to abandon ship, and the British-flagged Stena Impero.

Last week, a large group of retired government employees came together outside the Labor Ministry inTehran to protest. The retirees held aloft banners with slogans such as: “The hands of plunderers must be cut short of the retirees’ fund”, “Our homes have been plundered, we have no fear to expose (the government), we will stand till the end”, and “The one percent are making profits out of the pockets of the 99 percent.” The protesters were also heard chanting messages such as: “Stellar wages (of government officials) are in contrast with public misery”, “If (the government) embezzlement is stopped, our problems will be solved”, and “The line of poverty is 70 million rials, our salary is 20 million rials.” These slogans reveal both political and economic dissatisfaction with the regime.

Also last week, in the town of Abejdan, Khuzestan province, a large group of public sector workers gathered in front of the governor’s office to protest a 10-month delay in receiving their salaries. The workers held a banner that read: “We are the workers of Abejdan, we haven’t received our wages for 10 months. We haven't received our New Year bonus. We don't have insurance. Officials. Respond to us. We are hungry.”

In Tehran, there was also a protest at the Central Bank, where customers of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-affiliated financial institution demanded the return of their invested money.

In another protest last week, locals in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, blocked the Siman Road over the government’s failure to supply water. The Iranian parliament’s research center in January indicated that almost half of the country’s population faces problems accessing drinking water. Its report warned that “as a result of the drinking water crisis, some cities saw scenes of unrest, creating challenges for the authorities.”

Furthermore, protests have been documented this month in the province of Tabriz over the “prohibition of hawking their wares in the historical market place of Tabriz,” as well as in the capital Tehran for unpaid wages.

Teachers are another sector that contributes to the unrest. Many teachers demonstrated this month in the city of Kermanshah, western Iran, demanding the release of an imprisoned colleague. Hamidreza Rahmati, a member of the Isfahan Teachers’ Association, has been sentenced to three years in prison, 74 lashes in public and a fine because he dared to hold a sit-in protest against the regime.

Pushing back against the hardliners, many Iranian women are also continuing to refuse to obey the regime’s rules on how women should dress and act.

Even the findings of a 2018 report issued by Iran’s own Interior Ministry showed that people are demanding fundamental changes. The report pointed out that “people’s trust in the regime has been diminished, institutions have lost their effectiveness.” It added that: “The slogans raised in the protests were 30 percent economical, 70 percent political, and 75 percent of the people sympathized with the demonstrators in 80 Iranian cities.”

Despite the revolutionary guards’ brute force and repression, many people in Iran are continuing to protest against the regime and are demanding fundamental changes.

 

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This is what we want to see.  The Mullah’s tyranny can’t hold up when people revolt in large numbers.  Hundreds of Iranian protester have disappeared, probably rotting in jail or executed but the people still march in the streets.  

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Iran eyes 'toll' on all ships passing through Strait of Hormuz

 
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By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times - Sunday, July 21, 2019

Iranian lawmakers on Sunday said they believe their country should impose a “toll” on all ships that pass through the vital Strait of Hormuz.

The proposal comes just 48 hours after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) seized a British oil tanker traveling through the Strait, a key shipping channel in the region. In a statement Sunday, a group of Iranian lawmakers praised the move and said Tehran should go even further in exercising control over the Strait.

“We support the IRGC Navy’s proper and firm measure to seize an offending British oil tanker and ask the IRGC to continue its path firmly and powerfully,” the Iranian lawmakers said, as quoted by the Fars News Agency. “Finally, we urge the honorable government and president to put on its agenda the issue of collecting toll from the ships which pass through the Strait of Hormuz.”

After the Trump administration earlier this year imposed a full embargo on exports of Iranian oil, Tehran has targeted foreign vessels sailing through the strait. In addition to detaining multiple ships, the U.S. has alleged that Iran carried out a series of limpet mine attacks on oil tankers.

The British ship seized on Friday, the Stena Impero, remains in Iranian custody at the country’s Port of Bandar Abbas. There were 23 crew members on board, and Iranian officials said Sunday they are all in good health.



The company that owns the ship, Stena Bulk, said it is crafting a “formal request” to visit the crew and ensure they’re safe.

Meanwhile, British officials said the country will weigh economic sanctions against Iran in response to the ship seizure.

“This is a hostile act, let’s not dodge away from that. This is a serious matter which Iran must recognize,” U.K. Defense Minister Tobias Ellwood told Sky News over the weekend. “We’re looking at the operational responsibilities from that but, yes, we are going to be looking at a series of options.”

The ship detainment comes on the heels of the U.S. military last week shooting down an Iranian drone over international waters, an incident that ratcheted up tensions between the two sides even higher.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/21/iran-eyes-toll-strait-hormuz-ships/

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Iranian lawmakers on Sunday said they believe their country should impose a “toll” on all ships that pass through the vital Strait of Hormuz.

 

Thanks for this article Butifldrm, Didn’t see it.  It’s almost comical.  Don’t think the world is going to let that fly. 

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Abdul Mahdi and British Defense Minister agree to cooperate in the field of free shipping in the Gulf

Political | 02:00 - 22/07/2019

 
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Prime Minister Abdul Mahdi and British Defense Minister Benny Murdon agreed on Monday to cooperate in the Gulf's free shipping area. 
"The Prime Minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, received today a telephone call from the British Minister of Defense Benny Murdont," the media office of Abdul Mahdi said in a statement received by Mawazine News. 
The statement added that the meeting discussed bilateral relations and means of strengthening them to meet the aspiration of the two friendly peoples, as well as discussing regional security and ways of calm and working to avoid the escalation factors. 
The two sides stressed "the need to achieve security and stability in the Gulf region and the Middle East, and the importance of freedom of navigation for all countries and respect for international law" and agreed to cooperate to "achieve this."

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Editorial Date: 2019/7/22 14:04  97 times read
Iraq and Britain stress security and stability in the Gulf and the Middle East
(Baghdad: Al-Furat News) Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi discussed the need to achieve security and stability in the Gulf and the Middle East during a telephone call from British Defense Minister Benny Mordonet.
"The bilateral relations between the two sides were discussed, and means of strengthening them to meet the aspiration of the two friendly peoples," the press office of the prime minister said. "They also discussed regional security and ways of calm and work to avoid the escalation factors." 
The two sides stressed "the need to achieve security and stability in the Gulf region and the Middle East, and the importance of freedom of navigation for all countries and respect for international law, and agreed to cooperate to achieve this." is over
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Iran says breaks up CIA spy ring, some sentenced to death

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Iranian television said they caught a CIA spying ring

Tension between Iran and the west are spiralling lately after the capture of tankers

DUBAI: Iran captured 17 spies working for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and some have been sentenced to death, Iranian media reported on Monday.
Iranian state television published images it said showed the CIA officers who were in touch with the suspected spies.
There was no immediate comment on the Iranian allegations by the CIA or US officials.
Iran announced in June that it had broken up an alleged CIA spy ring but it was unclear whether Monday’s announcement was linked to the same case.
The announcement comes after three months of spiralling confrontation between Iran and the West that began when new tighter US sanctions took effect in May.
Last week Iran captured a British tanker after Britain’s Royal Marines seized an Iranian tanker on July 4.
In a statement read on state television, the Ministry of Intelligence said 17 spies were arrested during the Iranian calendar year that ended in March 2019.
“The identified spies were employed in sensitive and vital private sector centers in the economic, nuclear, infrastructure, military and cyber areas... where they collected classified information,” read the ministry statement.
In a separate report, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted a Ministry of Intelligence official as saying some of those arrested had been sentenced to death.

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1529081/middle-east

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Pompeo suggests Iran may be lying about arrests of CIA spies

 

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07/22/2019 06:28 AM EDT

 

Updated 07/22/2019 07:48 AM EDT

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday cast doubt on Iran's claim that it had arrested a group of CIA spies, contending that the Islamic Republic "has a long history of lying."

"It's part of the nature of the Ayatollah to lie to the world," Pompeo told Fox News. "I would take with a significant grain of salt any Iranian assertion about actions that they've taken."

 

The secretary of state, who previously served as the director of the CIA, did not directly address Iran's claim that it had captured U.S. spies.

Iran announced earlier in the day that it has arrested 17 Iranian nationals allegedly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on the country’s nuclear and military sites, and that some of them have already been sentenced to death.

The arrests took place over the past months and those taken into custody worked on “sensitive sites” in the country’s military and nuclear facilities, an Iranian intelligence official told a press conference in Tehran.

He did not say how many of them got the death sentence nor when the sentences were handed down.

Asked about the reported arrests, Pompeo said he "can't add much to it specifically," but "would urge everyone who’s reading that story waking up to understand that the Iranian regime has a long history of lying."

The announcement from Tehran comes as Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers is unraveling and tensions have spiked in the Persian Gulf region. The crisis stems from President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of Tehran’s deal last year and intensify sanction on the country.

The Iranian official did not give his name but was identified as the director of the counterespionage department of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry. Such a procedure is highly unusual in Iran; officials usually identify themselves at press conferences. It is also rare for intelligence officials to appear before the media.

The official claimed that none of the 17, who allegedly had “sophisticated training,” had succeeded in their sabotage missions. Their spying missions included collecting information at the facilities they worked at, carrying out technical and intelligence activities and transferring and installing monitoring devices, he said.

The official further claimed the CIA had promised those arrested U.S. visas or jobs in America and that some of the agents had turned and were now working with his department “against the U.S.”

He also handed out a CD with a video recording of an alleged foreign female spy working for the CIA. The disc also included names of several U.S. Embassy staff in Turkey, India, Zimbabwe and Austria who Iran claims were in touch with the recruited Iranian spies.

Occasionally, Iran announces detentions of spies it says are working for foreign countries, including the U.S. and Israel. In June, Iran said it executed a former staff member of the Defense Ministry who was convicted of spying for the CIA.

In April, Iran said it uncovered 290 CIA spies both inside and outside the country over the past years.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/22/iran-arrests-cia-spies-1424590

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2019/07/22 14:59
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Pompeo to the British .. Protect your ships yourselves .. Do not want war with Iran

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the protection of British ships was the responsibility of the kingdom itself.

In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Pompeo, commenting on the case of Iran's seizure of the British oil tanker Stena Impero, said the protection of British ships was a "task" for the United Kingdom.

The US Secretary of State stressed that his country does not want any war with Iran, knowing that the United States has already made repeated threats to the Islamic Republic against the backdrop of the detention of the British ship.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced on July 19 that the British-flagged British tanker Stena Impero was being held in the Strait of Hormuz, saying the ship had not complied with international navigation laws, turned off tracking devices and crashed into a fishing boat there.

The Revolutionary Guard said that the carrier was directed to the Iranian coasts and handed over to the Iranian Ports and Navigation Organization to begin investigations and the completion of legal stages.

This incident came after the British Marines captured on 4 July the Iranian Grace 1 tanker by the waters of Gibraltar claiming it was heading to Syrian territory, which opposes the European sanctions against Damascus.

On July 11, Britain announced that three Iranian vessels had tried to intercept a British tanker as it passed through the Strait of Hormuz, which controls the flow of oil from the Middle East to the world. But these ships withdrew after warnings from a British Royal Navy vessel. Tehran denies all these allegations.

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Iran's state TV has released video showing the crew on-board the British-flagged oil tanker that was seized by Tehran in the Strait of Hormuz last week.

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As it did in the 1980s to avoid targeting it in the Strait of Hormuz

Will the Kuwaiti tankers take the American flag?

 

 
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Will the Kuwaiti tankers take the American flag?

Mahmoud Issa

Under the title «« Strait of Hormuz at stake now », said the site« The Congregation »that the strait separates Iran from the states of Oman and the United Arab Emirates, which have strong military ties with the United States.

The site, an independent and non-profit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts in an analysis by Professor at the University of Toffets Rockford Weitz, said all shipments from energy-rich Gulf states converged in the strait, including crude oil and liquefied natural gas exports from Iran and Iraq Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Wittz recalled what Kuwait had done in the 1980s by registering its oil tankers under the American shipping record and carrying the American flag to avoid targeting and withholding its real ownership during the Iran-Iraq war, while each side in the so-called "Tanker War" was trying to sink exports Energy for the other side, and this is an indication of the importance gained by the sea corridor during the past decades.

Despite the continued flow of crude oil, the rates of marine insurance for vessels crossing the strait rose by up to 400%.

Although tensions have erupted again in the Strait of Hormuz between the United States, Iran and other countries, the 21-mile narrow sea corridor is currently being transited by 21 percent of the world's crude oil, and the oil and tankers concerned also belong to other countries, including Japan Norway and the United Kingdom.

As a researcher who studies strategic naval points like this in the Middle East, I think the ongoing skirmishes in this waterway are classic examples of Iran's use of hybrid warfare, which are unconventional tactics so subtle that they do not lead to military retaliation.

As for what is happening now, the researcher said: The recent conflict in the Strait of Hormuz arose after the US decision to withdraw from the Iranian nuclear agreement in May 2018, and by July 2018 Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz to respond to the escalation of US sanctions against it.

Ironically, the June 2019 attacks on Japanese and Norwegian oil tankers coincided with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Tehran. If the latter were indeed the perpetrators, it might signal to influential Asian powers, especially Japan and China, that they need Would put further pressure on Trump to ease sanctions against Iran or risk disrupting vital oil and gas exports that cross the strait to Asia.

Iran is likely to face a problem in stopping all cross-strait shipping because modern tankers are huge and difficult to disable because most of them are double-edged and difficult to sink, and the United States is building a multinational alliance to protect commercial shipping across the strait Hormuz as well as waters surrounding Yemen.

If the United States and Iran say they want a diplomatic solution, it means neither wants the conflict to develop into a full-scale war.

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Iran says breaks up CIA spy ring, some sentenced to death

 

Dont believe this will ease the conditions in the ME.  Iran is being very provocative.

 

Is it because they are trapped in a corner and must fight to stay alive. ( lot of folks in the streets calling for change.  The sanctions are working) 

Or are they really wanting to go to War and bring the ME conditions to a head. Do they have a Nuke, are they expecting help from Russia or China. 

 

I think it is the former.  We’ll see but it’s not going to end well either way for the Mullah’s. Tyranny always has its day of reckoning 

 

Thank you for the articles Yota and Butifldrm.  You guys make it easy for working people like me so we don’t have to read 200 web sites pertaining to Iraq and the ME

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Tokyo: We focus on reducing tensions between America and Iran

Political | 06:54 - 22/07/2019

 
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- Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday his government was focusing its programs on reducing tensions between the United States and Iran and was making efforts in this regard. 
"Tokyo, before making any decision in response to Washington's demand, is keen to make efforts to reduce tensions between Iran and the United States," the Japanese prime minister said during his first press conference on Tuesday after his party won a majority of seats in the Japanese Senate. 
"Japan has long-standing relations based on friendship with Iran," he said, referring to the exchange of visits between senior officials of the two countries. 
"Japanese authorities are determined to employ friendly and long-standing relations to resolve tensions," he said.
US national security adviser John Bolton is on a visit to Japan and South Korea in the context of his efforts to persuade countries in the region to join the US "naval alliance," Japanese media reported on Tuesday.

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Release tanker and crew immediately, Britain tells Iran

 

Britain called on Iran on Monday to release a British-flagged tanker and its crew immediately, describing the seizure of the Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz as illegal.

Iranian Revolutionary Guards rappelled from helicopters and seized the Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday in apparent retaliation for the British capture of an Iraniantanker two weeks earlier.

“The ship was seized under false and illegal pretenses and the Iranians should release it and its crew immediately,” Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman told reporters.

“We do not seek confrontation with Iran, but it is unacceptable and highly escalatory to seize a ship going about legitimate business through internationally recognized shipping lanes.”

May was chairing a meeting of Britain’s COBR emergency response committee, and Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt is expected to make a statement to parliament later on Monday to face criticism that British naval vessels should have escorted the ship.


The spokesman said the emergency committee meeting was discussing ways of strengthening reassurance and monitoring for commercial shipping.

 

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/42978/Release-tanker-and-crew-immediately-Britain-tells-Iran

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No kidding. I said in another thread that they are like a cornered animal.  The sanctions are working and the people are marching in the streets.  They feel they have to bring it to a head or maybe they want war to try out their new nukes.  Maybe they are expecting help from Russia or China.  

 

I think it is the former, the Mullahs are under pressure from their citizens. People are starving bro.  

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