{"id":280894,"date":"2019-07-08T07:25:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T07:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=280894"},"modified":"2019-07-08T07:25:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T07:25:53","slug":"iranian-official-threatens-to-seize-british-oil-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iranian-official-threatens-to-seize-british-oil-tanker\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian official threatens to seize British oil tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Iranian official said on Friday that Tehran should seize a British oil vessel in case London refuses to release the Iranian oil tanker detained in Gibraltar.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, British Royal Marines helped officials in Gibraltar to seize an Iranian supertanker \u201cGrace 1\u201d suspected of carrying oil to Syria, \u201cin breach of EU sanctions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Iran later summoned the British ambassador to Tehran Rob Macaire to complain about what it said was a \u201cform of piracy\u201d, Press TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities\u2019 duty to make a reciprocal move and seize a British oil tanker,\u201d said Major General Mohsen Rezaei, a member of a council that advises the country\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, in a tweet. He said that \u201cIran will never hesitate to respond to bullies\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Iranian official said on Friday that Tehran should seize a British oil vessel in case London refuses to release the Iranian oil tanker detained in Gibraltar. On Thursday, British Royal Marines helped officials in Gibraltar to seize an Iranian supertanker \u201cGrace 1\u201d suspected of carrying oil to Syria, \u201cin breach of EU sanctions\u201d. Iran later summoned the British ambassador to Tehran Rob Macaire to complain about what it said was a \u201cform of piracy\u201d, Press TV reported. \u201cIf Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities\u2019 duty to make a reciprocal move and seize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}