Aljazeera:
Gibraltar has refused a request by the United States to seize an Iranian oil tanker at the centre of a diplomatic standoff between Tehran and Europe.
British Royal Marines had seized the vessel in Gibraltar in July on suspicion that it was carrying oil to Syria, a close ally of Iran, in violation of European Union sanctions.
That detention ended last week, but on Friday a US court issued a warrant for the seizure of the tanker, on the grounds that it had links to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which Washington has designated a "terrorist" organisation.
Gibraltar's government said on Sunday it could not comply with the US request because of European law.
"The Central Authority's inability to seek the Orders requested is a result of the operation of European Union law and the differences in the sanctions regimes applicable to Iran in the EU and the US," the government said in a statement.
"The EU sanctions regime against Iran - which is applicable in Gibraltar - is much narrower than that applicable in the US."
Iran has denied the tanker was ever headed to Syria.
Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons, reporting from Gibraltar, said the authorities in the overseas British territory had determined that US sanctions on Iran were not applicable in the EU.
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I have been tracking the movement of the Iranian tanker through the vessel tracker app. and while it has been anchored about 2 miles east of Gibraltar, the Royal Navy has been paying visits to it as well as Gibraltar boats. The tanker has now changed its name to "Adrian Darya 1" and I read somewhere that it's changing its registration from Panamanian to Russian.
It remains to be seen if Grace 1 will offload its 2 million barrels of crude in Syria, Turkey or the high seas, or if it returns to Iran through the Suez Canal or the long journey through the horn of Africa.
O' what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
Gibraltar goft, khyt shoodi?
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ICE is coming after you!!
LOL! That’s hilarious.
Do they have computers at internment camps? I wouldn’t mind hearing from them, once in a while.
Well Tabrik!
I hope any left overs of the Tanker's oil money, after hassan khiki nasroolah of hizboola, Al-Baghdadid of ISIS, al-moftkhor of Hamas, Al-Afghani of Taliban have had their shares , would find it's way to the valiant keyboard Jihadists on this site! They deserve it!
LOOL
Adrian Darya 1 (Grace 1) is heading to Kalamata, Greece at 8.9 knots.
If you zoom in enough, you will see a big bilakh to the want e be the pirates
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ICE will raid the ship and handcuff all the terrorists and ship 'em to GITMO! You can bet your toomboon's kesh on it !!!
Looks like you already lost your toomboon's kesh on this bet. Framarz tracking already showing that they are sunbathing on the deck and giving a bilakh to the pirates at the sea
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I think Bob is looking through the wrong end of the binoculars - he might even be hallucinating or looking into Ali Khaye-many's Maagh_add!!! I hear it's very sholoogh poloogh oon too!!!