{"id":287614,"date":"2019-08-19T04:56:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T04:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=287614"},"modified":"2019-08-19T04:56:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T04:56:31","slug":"gibraltar-government-rejects-us-demand-to-detain-iranian-oil-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gibraltar-government-rejects-us-demand-to-detain-iranian-oil-tanker\/","title":{"rendered":"Gibraltar government rejects US demand to detain Iranian oil tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gibraltar on Sunday rejected a US demand to seize an Iranian oil tanker at the centre of a diplomatic dispute as it prepared to leave the British overseas territory after weeks of detention. <\/p>\n<p>Gilbraltar&#8217;s government said it could not seek a court order to detain the ship because US sanctions against Iran were not applicable in the European Union. <\/p>\n<p>A Gibraltar judge had ordered the Grace 1 tanker released, but the US filed a request to detain the ship alleging it was involved in supporting illicit shipments to Syria by Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, listed as a terrorist group by Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gibraltar on Sunday rejected a US demand to seize an Iranian oil tanker at the centre of a diplomatic dispute as it prepared to leave the British overseas territory after weeks of detention. Gilbraltar&#8217;s government said it could not seek a court order to detain the ship because US sanctions against Iran were not applicable in the European Union. A Gibraltar judge had ordered the Grace 1 tanker released, but the US filed a request to detain the ship alleging it was involved in supporting illicit shipments to Syria by Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, listed as a terrorist group [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287614","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=287614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}