Iran warns US over oil tanker

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https://www.dw.com/en/iran-warns-us-over-oil-tanker/a-50073623

Iran warns US over oil tanker

Date 19.08.2019

Iran gave a stark warning to the US on Monday over further attempts to detain the Iranian oil tanker that set sail on Sunday, after it spent six weeks detained in Gibraltar.

The US Justice Department issued a federal warrant last week for the seizure of the supertanker. That notion was given short shrift from Tehran.

"Iran has given necessary warnings to American officials through its official channels... not to make such a mistake because it would have grave consequences," Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi told reporters.
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The Grace 1, renamed the Adrian Darya 1, left anchorage off Gibraltar late on Sunday night and is currently en route to Kalamta, Greece, according to shipping data.

[Ghost Dog]

1. There's more in this LBN thread:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142356598#post9

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2. Excellent coverage Ghost Dog...will you b updating throughout the day...

BTW...what the hell does the pos mean..“We can do something very fast, but they don’t quite know how to begin,” - or is this just more
bloviating..?

[Ghost Dog]

3. Good question. How to start something militarily

in international waters in the Mediterranean? I'm sure his admirals have options for starting something, once international law is dismissed ... but with what consequences?

[Ghost Dog]

4. In the shipping lane:

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5. WOW! Look at all those ships..thanks for this Ghost Dog..so, the ship Adrian Darya 1

headed for Kalamata, Greece..interesting…..

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6. Any new tracking Ghost Dog..iranian oi tanker today?? tks n/t

[Ghost Dog]

8. North of Algiers

[asiliveandbreathe]

9. Awesome tks Ghost Dog..saw your BBC article as well..I find it helpful to have a point of

reference when analysts start talking about this situation..I will learn how to track on Maritime tracker and follow bbc more closely..have the Guardian on tab as well...tks again...

[Ghost Dog]

10. North of Tunisia (ancient Carthage), between Sardinia & Sicily:

[asiliveandbreathe]

11. Thank you so much Ghost Dog....

[Ghost Dog]

12. You're welcome! nt

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7. Greece "not willing to facilitate the course of this ship to Syria"

... Tehran has previously said it was willing to send naval forces to escort the Adrian Darya-1. It is currently north of the Algerian port of Oran...

... Samir Madani, one of the founders of the maritime traffic site TankerTrackers.com, told the BBC he believed the ship was trying to return to Iran through the Suez Canal. "They will have to offload around a million barrels to another vessel, most likely with an Iranian flag as well, in order to do so because she is too heavily laden in the water," he said. "To go to Syria she's also too heavily laden to deliver to [the port of] Baniyas without assistance."

The tanker took a circuitous route to the Mediterranean, travelling around the entirety of Africa instead of through the far shorter and quicker Suez Canal.

"They don't have to ship all the way around Africa in order to reach Syria," Mr Madani says. Their analysts believe the ship was heading to Syrian waters as a safe haven, from where they could offload oil to smaller ships for delivery across the Mediterranean. "It could be buyers in southern Europe, for instance," he said...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49419375

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13. Iranian tanker switches destination, heads to Turkey

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-iran-tanker-greece/iranian-tanker-switches-destination-heads-to-turkey-ship-tracking-data-idUKKCN1VE09H?il=0

ATHENS (Reuters) - An Iranian tanker at the centre of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran has switched destination and is now heading to Turkey instead of southern Greece, data from real-time ship tracking website MarineTraffic showed on Saturday...

A convenient location for her purposes:



The ship is, as I write, in the Strait of Sicily approaching Maltese waters:



XPost LBN: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142359235

[Corgigal]

14. Wait,

Why? I'm an old USAF gal, not navy.

Between Iran and selling F16s to Taiwan, I can't keep up with the trump wars probability scale.

[Ghost Dog]

15. Iran wants to sell this oil, which I've seen estimated to be worth around $20 million.

Turkey & the EU would have no problem with this as long as, for the EU, it is not sold to the Syrian government, against which there are EU UN-approved sanctions, apparently. Only Trump's USA, unilaterally and illegally under international law, seeks to prevent Iranian oil sales to anyone anywhere.

This ship is very large. It needs to anchor somewhere peaceful, where to offload oil onto smaller tankers for delivery, could be, anywhere in S.Europe and the E.Mediterranean, or even beyond...