US unveils warrant to seize Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar dispute
A day after Gibraltar judge allows vessel’s release, US condemns ‘scheme to unlawfully access US financial system’
The US justice department on Friday unveiled a warrant for the seizure of the Iranian oil tanker at the centre of a weeks-long diplomatic dispute, one day after a Gibraltar judge allowed the release of the detained vessel.
The supertanker Grace 1 was seized in early July by the British overseas territory of Gibraltar in apparent retaliation for Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged tanker in the Gulf.
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