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British
Tanker Seizure Try Fake News, Totally Fabricated
11 July, 2019
Editor’s note: The entire thing was fake, made up by the BBC, a network owned by a government long taken over by Epstein style sex trafficking of young boys and a few girls, you see in the UK, it is always young boys…part of their “public school” tradition of buggery.
If only I were making this up. The UK is a nation entirely run by perverts, twits and morons, all fed into office by multi-generational organized crime.
What makes it worse, I just returned from Britain and spoke to many (not countless close).
“Boris Johnson is dangerous, he is being paid off by the Israeli’s, this is going to be a disaster.” He just torpedoed the UK ambassador to the US for Trump and now engineered this false flag piece of crap. He is “on the pad” full time. Nothing from Britain can be trusted except stilton cheese.
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Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has dismissed a claim by US officials that its naval forces tried to stop a British tanker in the Persian Gulf.
Early on Thursday, two American officials, who were speaking to Reuters on the condition of anonymity, claimed that five boats believed to belong to the IRGC had approached the tanker British Heritage at the northern entrance of the Strait of Hormuz and ordered it to stop.
The Iranian boats dispersed, said one of the sources, after the UK’s Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose, which had been escorting the tanker, “pointed its guns at the boats and warned them over radio.”
The other official also called the alleged incident an act of “harassment and an attempt to interfere with the passage.”
However, the IRGC rejected the US officials’ claim, stressing that Iranian boats were carrying out their normal duties.
“Patrols by the IRGC’s Navy vessels have been underway in the Persian Gulf based on current procedures and missions assigned to them with vigilance, precision and strength,” said the Public Relations Department of the IRGC Navy’s Fifth Naval Zone in a statement.
“In the past 24 hours, there has been no encounter with foreign ships, including British ones,” it added.
The statement further noted that the IRGC Navy’s fifth zone has the power to act “decisively and swiftly” and seize foreign vessels in the area it is tasked with patrolling if an order is issued to that effect.
Similarly, Britain claimed Thursday that three Iranian vessels had tried to block the passage of its tanker but backed off.
“HMS Montrose was forced to position herself between the Iranian vessels and British Heritage and issue verbal warnings to the Iranian vessels, which then turned away,” a British government representative said.
Zarif: Such claims have no value
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also reacted to the allegations, saying they are merely meant to create tensions.
Those who make such claims attempt to “cover up their weak point,” he added. “Apparently the British tanker has passed. What they have said themselves and the claims that have been made are for creating tension and these claims have no value.”
The claims came two weeks after British marines illegally seized an Iranian oil tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar under the pretext that the vessel had been suspected of carrying crude to Syria in violation of EU sanctions against the Arab country.
Reports, however, said the seizure took place at the request of the US.
The Islamic Republic condemned the illegal seizure as “maritime piracy” and summoned the British ambassador on three occasions to convey its protest at the confiscation.
RT: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have denied reports that their patrol boats tried to stop a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf.
There were “no encounters” between the Iranian warships and foreign vessels at the time when the incident is alleged to have taken place, the IRGC’s naval unit said in a statement on Thursday, cited by Fars News.
The IRGC also reiterated that they are prepared to “act swiftly and decisively” should they receive an order to capture any foreign ship.
London said three Iranian patrol boats attempted to stop its oil tanker, ‘British Heritage,’ as it was sailing through the Strait of Hormuz to the Persian Gulf. According to the British government statement, the Iranian vessels were forced to back away after receiving a warning from the Royal Navy frigate, HMS ‘Monrose,’ which was escorting another tanker in the area.
ALSO ON RT.COM Iran accused of botched UK tanker raid… just DAY after US call to arms against Tehran
Tensions between Tehran and London escalated last week when the Royal Marines and Gibraltar’s police seized a Panama-flagged and Singapore-owned supertanker near the Strait of Gibraltar. The ship was suspected of transporting oil to Syria in violation of the EU sanctions on Damascus.
According to the US, the captured tanker was carrying Iranian oil. Tehran had acknowledged its ties to the ship but denied that it was traveling to Syria. Iranian officials blasted the seizure of the tanker as “piracy” and demanded that it be released.
Major General Mohsen Rezaee of the IRGC, who leads the influential Expediency Discernment Council, had suggested that Tehran should seize a British oil tanker if London refuses to return the ship captured off Gibraltar.
On Wednesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned London that its actions against the tanker would have “consequences in the future.”
Iran Keeps Calm While U.S. and Britain Continue
Their Provocations
11
June, 2019
Great
Britain has joined the U.S. pressure and provocation campaign against
Iran. It is creating incidents to put Iran into a defensive position
and to provoke into a violent reaction.
Early
today 'two U.S. officials' spread a scare story about Iran which lead
to this CNN headline: Iranian
boats attempted to seize a British tanker in the Strait of Hormuz
Armed Iranian boats unsuccessfully tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf Wednesday, according to two US officials with direct knowledge of the incident.
The British Heritage tanker was sailing out of the Persian Gulf and was crossing into the Strait of Hormuz area when it was approached by boats from the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The Iranians ordered the tanker to change course and stop in nearby Iranian territorial waters, according to the officials.
A British warship prevented an apparent attempt by five Iranian small boats to direct a British oil tanker towards Iranian waters on Wednesday, according to two U.S. officials.
Remarkably
the official British report came
later than the U.S. officials briefing. It showed significant
differences:
The UK defence ministry said that "three Iranian vessels attempted to impede the passage of a commercial vessel, British Heritage, through the Strait of Hormuz."
"HMS Montrose was forced to position herself between the Iranian vessels and British Heritage and issue verbal warnings to the Iranian vessels, which then turned away," the ministry statement said.
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"There has been no confrontation in the last 24 hours with any foreign vessels, including British ones," the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement.
The
U.S. officials claimed 5, not 3 boats. They claimed the boats tried
to seize the ship, while the Brits just say they probably were
getting in the way of the ship. The U.S. officials 'direct knowledge
of the incident' seems to be lacking. Iran says that nothing happened
at all.
There
are reasons to believe that the Iranian statement is the most
truthful one.
The
BRITISH HERITAGE is
a crude oil carrier with
an overall length of 274 m, a beam of 49 m and a maximum draft of
17.8 m. How three of the typical 20 feet long fiberglass speedboats
of the IRGC could try to 'seize' or even 'impede' such a huge ships
is not conceivable.
According
to CNN the
ship came from Basra, Iraq, had stopped at the Saudi coast and then
left the Persian Gulf. It was not carrying any cargo at the time of
the incident. That is quite curious as a crude oil carrier is typical
loading and not delivering crude to Persian Gulf countries.
Here
is a Marine
Traffic chart
of the last course of the British Heritage.
Of
interest is also that the ship turned off its AIS signal, see the
dotted line, during its passage through the Hormuz Strait.
On July 10, the ship turned off its transponders for almost 24 hours, making it undetectable by radars. When it switched on its transponders at around 1pm Eastern Time, it appeared to have sailed through the Persian Gulf escorted by the HMS Montrose.
Turning
of the AIS in a high traffic area and especially at night is quite
dangerous. The AIS signals a ships type, speed and course and other
ships use that data to plan their own course. But even without AIS
the ship will still be visible on the Iranian surveillance radars
that control the Hormuz Strait. A ship on the radar screen without
AIS information would be suspicious.
So
why would the British ship do that? Was that an attempt to draw
special attention to it from the Iranian coast guard or military?
To me it seems that the empty British crude carrier, which was shadowed by a British frigate, was used as bait. There were probably Royal Marines on board waiting for an Iranian attempt to seize the ship. Iran did not fall for it.
On
July 4 the British military in Gibraltar hijacked
the tanker GRACE 1 which
was carrying Iranian
crude oil allegedly
to Syria. The ship had planned to receive provisions in Gibraltar.
The British controlled enclave changed
its local regulations only
a day before the ship arrived:
The new regulation, introduced on July 3, allows Gibraltar to designate and detain ‘specified ships’ for up to 72 hours if the chief minister has reasonable grounds to suspect a breach of EU regulations.
Crucially, Grace 1 can be held until any other legal proceedings in other jurisdictions against the owners of the cargo or tanker are settled. The seizure has triggered a diplomatic row between the UK and Iran, amid claims the detention was done at the behest of the US.
Tomasz
Wlostowski, a lawyer specialized in EU regulatory affairs, found
that there
is no legal base in
EU sanctions law and regulations to nab the tanker.
Gibraltar Chronicle @GibChronicle - 14:45 UTC - 11 Jul 2019
Police in #Gibraltar have arrested the captain and chief officer of the supertanker Grace 1 on suspicion of breaching EU sanctions on Syria, a spokesman for the Royal Gibraltar Police has confirmed.
The spokesman confirmed too that documents and electronic devices have been seized from the ship.
Both men were arrested on Thursday afternoon interviewed under caution. Neither has been charged at this stage and investigations continue.
On
July 3 a U.S. military spy plane crossed
into Iranian airspace,
twice, likely to provoke an reaction. The pirating of the GRACE 1 on
July 4 was a U.S. planned provocation of Iran but carried out by the
Brits. The passage of the empty BRITISH HERITAGE without AIS but with
a military shadow seems to have been an attempt to lure Iran into a
revenge action. When that did not work John Bolton strew the scare
story about a failed attempt to 'seize' the ship. The Brits say the
incident was less serious, and Iran says it
never happened. The arrest of the captain of the GRACE 1 is another
step on the provocation ladder.
The
people who planned these provocation do not understand how Iran acts
and reacts. Its military forces are obviously under orders not to
react to provocations as such could allow the John Bolton's of this
world to escalate towards a war.
Iran
will react to these provocations and especially the British seizure
of its tanker. But, as we noted in an earlier
piece,
its responses to such incidents are nearly always asymmetrical and
come at an unexpected place and time.
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