The official British explanation is that a Gibraltarian law allows for enforcement of “UN, EU and UK sanctions,” and cites a regulation adopted a day before the seizure of Grace 1 as authorizing the Royal Marines to enforce the EU oil embargo against Syria – not US sanctions on exports of Iranian oil. That’s what the US does.- Carl Bildt July 7, 2019 And EU as a principle doesn’t impose its sanctions on others. One refers to EU sanctions against Syria, but Iran is not a member of EU. The legalities of the UK seizure of a tanker heading for Syria with oil from Iran intrigues me. While Tehran has been quiet on the Egyptian seizure, its officials have condemned the taking of Grace 1 as “piracy, pure and simple” and insisted that such behavior sets a terrible precedent and must stop immediately. Days prior, however, Egyptian marines had seized a Ukrainian-flagged vessel in the Suez Canal, the Qatari outlet Al-Araby recently reported. The British boarding of the Panamanian-flagged Grace 1 in Gibraltar last week is well known. Also on rt.com Tehran calls for securing of strategic waterways after tankers attacked in Gulf of OmanĪt a guess, two of those countries might be the UK and Egypt, judging by their recent seizures of tankers carrying Iranian oil. Not to mention that Iran itself has welcomed a truly international security effort. The US is in contact with “a number of countries” to see which ones “have the political will” to support the project, the Marine general added.Ī legitimate policing project, however, would easily get UN approval and not require some kind of revamped “coalition of the willing” that the US used to illegally invade Iraq in 2003. These are the waterways connecting the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman, and the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, respectively. The latest out of Washington is that the US is looking to put together a “coalition” that would “ensure freedom of navigation both in the Straits of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandeb,” as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford said on Tuesday.
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