Britain Tells Iran's Regime: There Will Be No Tanker Swap

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Britain Tells Iran's Regime: There Will Be No Tanker Swap

Britain Tells Iran's Regime: There Will Be No Tanker Swap
Written by Shahriar Kia on .
Britain on Thursday ruled out exchanging an Iranian tanker detained by Gibraltar for a British-flagged tanker seized by Iran's regime in the Gulf.
“We are not going to barter: if people or nations have detained UK-flagged illegally then the rule of law and rule of international law must be upheld,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said while on a trip to Bangkok, Reuters reported.
“We are not going to barter a ship that was detained legally with a ship that was detained illegally: that’s not the way that Iran will come in from the cold,” he said. “So I am afraid some kind of barter or haggle or linkage is not on the table.”
Tensions have spiked between the Iranian regime and Britain since after Iranian Revolutionary Guards illegally seized a British-flagged tanker last month. That came after British forces captured an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar, accused of violating sanctions on Syria.
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