US issues warrant, UK ignores

[mrswdk]

After intercepting an Iranian tanker suspected of transporting oil to Syria (under EU sanctions), the UK has subsequently released that tanker in accordance with international law after Iran gave assurances the oil would not be transported to Syria.

The US has subsequently made repeated attempts to pressure the UK into illegally keeping the Iranian tanker detained, as part of its ongoing efforts to bully Iran. The UK has ignored these illegal pirate requests by the US bandit administration.

The US justice department has issued a warrant to seize a detained Iranian oil tanker, a day after a judge in Gibraltar ordered it to be released.

The Grace 1 supertanker, which is carrying 2.1m barrels of oil, was detained on 4 July on suspicion of illegally transporting oil to Syria.

A last-minute legal attempt by the US to keep the tanker detained was rejected by Gibraltar on Thursday.

[Today's] warrant, issued by a US federal court in Washington on Friday, is addressed to "the United States Marshals Service and/or any other duly authorized law enforcement officer".

Neither Britain nor Gibraltar have responded to the US warrant.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49379144

[mrswdk]

Now it has been revealed that after America's attempts at strong-arming the UK into detaining the Iranian tanker on their behalf failed, the desperate and failing US State Department resorted to trying to bribe the captain of the tanker to sail into waters where the US Navy would be allowed to detain it.

The US state department has confirmed it offered millions of dollars to the captain of an Iranian oil tanker which is at the centre of a diplomatic row.

Brian Hook, head of the department's Iran Action Group, emailed the captain of the Adrian Darya 1 about sailing it somewhere the US could seize it.

According to the Financial Times, Mr Hook sent an email to the Indian captain of the Adrian Darya 1, Akhilesh Kumar, before it imposed sanctions on the ship.

"I am writing with good news," the email read. The Trump administration was willing to pay the captain several million dollars to take the ship somewhere it could be seized by US authorities.

Mr Kumar ignored the emails. The US then imposed sanctions on him personally when they blacklisted the Adrian Darya 1.

On Twitter, Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif accused the US of "outright bribery".

The captain, of course, ignored their Nigerian prince-worthy email scam. How humiliating.

[mrswdk]

Attempt to buy Greenland: rejected
Attempt to bribe a ship's captain: rejected
Attempt to get a 10% discount on their next Starbucks order: pending???

[armati]

The neocons are losing influence.