Gibraltar was granted the power on Friday to detain Iran's Grace 1 oil tank...
LONDON - Gibraltar was granted the power on Friday to detain Iran’s Grace 1 oil tanker for another month, keeping the vessel at the center of a big-power quarrel between Iran and the United States and its allies.
Iran has repeatedly called for the ship’s release, denies the allegation that the tanker was taking oil to Syria in violation of sanctions and says Gibraltar and Britain seized the vessel on the orders of Washington. The vessel is now seen as a pawn in the standoff between the Islamic Republic and the West, with its fate tangled in the diplomatic differences between the EU’s big powers and the United States.
Iranian hardliners have repeatedly threatened to seize British shipping in retaliation for what they cast as London’s piracy and Britain last week said it had fended off Iranian ships that tried to block a British tanker.
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