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Satellite images show US-pursued Iran tanker still off Syrian coast
2019-09-11
[IsraelTimes] UK accuses Tehran of selling 2.1 million barrels of crude oil on board Adrian Darya to ’brutal’ Assad regime, violating international sanctions.

New satellite photos obtained Tuesday show an Iranian oil tanker pursued by the US remains off the coast of Syria.

The images from Planet Labs obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named have the Adrian Darya-1 still near the port city of Tartus. The images taken Sunday show another smaller vessel nearby.

The Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1, was carrying 2.1 million barrels of Iranian crude oil worth some $130 million.

Britannia, meanwhile, said Tuesday it’s clear the tanker delivered its cargo to Syria in violation of international sanctions.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You had it in your hands and let it go. STFU
The Foreign Office said Iran’s ambassador to the UK has been summoned for a dressing-down by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.

Raab said in a statement that Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
had broken a promise that oil aboard the Adrian Darya 1 would not go to Syria.

"This sale of oil to Assad’s brutal regime is part of a pattern of behavior by the government of Iran designed to disrupt regional security," he said. "This includes illegally supplying weapons to Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
snuffies in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
, support for Hezbollah murderous Moslems and most recently its attempts to hijack fat merchantmen passing through the Gulf.

"We want Iran to come in from the cold but the only way to do that is to keep its word and comply with the rules based international system."
Related:
Adrian Darya: 2019-09-09 Iran says tanker Adrian Darya 1 has arrived at destination, oil sold
Adrian Darya: 2019-09-07 Iranian tanker previously detained in Gibraltar allegedly offloads oil in Syria
Adrian Darya: 2019-09-05 China prepares military for F-35 threat
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  When it returns to the Persian Gulf for the next load sink it just outside the harbor.
Posted by: 3dc   2019-09-11 11:13  

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