Gibraltar rejects US demand to detain Iranian oil tanker


PTI | Gibraltar | Updated: 18-08-2019 18:09 IST | Created: 18-08-2019 18:04 IST
Gibraltar rejects US demand to detain Iranian oil tanker
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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. Gibraltar'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's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, listed as a terrorist group by Washington. 

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