{"id":17879,"date":"2019-07-11T12:58:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T10:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=17879"},"modified":"2019-07-11T12:58:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T10:58:35","slug":"reports-iran-denies-trying-to-stop-uk-oil-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=17879","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Iran Denies Trying to Stop UK Oil Tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article__lead\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sputnik -A Royal Navy ship earlier escorted the oil tanker British Heritage in the Strait of Hormuz after reports that several Iranian military boats had approached the vessel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"b-article__text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p class=\"marker-quote1\">&#8220;The American government &#8230; and also England &#8230; should not have taken action if they had made the smallest calculation&#8221;, ear Admiral Ali Fadavi, a deputy coordinator of the IRGC said. &#8220;We had rented this ship and we carried the cargo. Their action was very silly and they will certainly regret it. Our reciprocal action will be announced&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has previously rejected claims that the military had attempted to stop a British oil tanker in the Gulf in response to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/world\/201907081076183562-uk-seizure-of-iranian-tanker-piracy-sets-dangerous-precedent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seizure of an Iranian ship,<\/a>\u00a0Fars News Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The UK government has, in the meantime, urged Tehran to de-escalate the crisis between the two countries. Addressing the issue, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also stated that Moscow is ready to assist in easing the tensions.<\/p>\n<p>A US Department of Defence official claimed that five Iranian military vessels tried to seize the British tanker, while London mentions only three ships.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the incident, Iran&#8217;s President Hassan Rouhani mocked the UK, saying that British ships wouldn&#8217;t need to be escorted by the Royal Navy if Britain hadn&#8217;t endangered the safety of navigation by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/world\/201907081076183562-uk-seizure-of-iranian-tanker-piracy-sets-dangerous-precedent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seizing the Iranian tanker.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The news comes after the government of British overseas territory Gibraltar detained an Iranian tanker purportedly carrying oil to Syria and claimed that Tehran had violated international sanctions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sputnik -A Royal Navy ship earlier escorted the oil tanker British Heritage in the Strait of Hormuz after reports that several Iranian military boats had approached the vessel. &#8220;The American government &#8230; and also England &#8230; should not have taken action if they had made the smallest calculation&#8221;, ear Admiral Ali Fadavi, a deputy coordinator &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4220,388],"tags":[3843,758,3634,3604,2352,4073,9436,1596],"class_list":["post-17879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-slide","tag-denies","tag-iran","tag-oil","tag-reports","tag-stop","tag-tanker","tag-trying-to","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17881,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17879\/revisions\/17881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}