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[Regnum] The International Court of Tehran ruled to confiscate the cargo from the American tanker Advantage Sweet, detained by Iran in April 2023, at the request of patients with epidermolysis bullosa, the Iranian Tasnim agency reported.
According to journalists, the court considered the claim of those suffering from a rare hereditary skin disease against the United States.
| …8.2 cases per million live births in America, What does that have to do with Iran? |
Due to American sanctions prohibiting the import of medicines into Iran, they lost the opportunity to receive special bandages and medicines from Sweden. The court, having considered the complaint, issued a warrant for the confiscation of American oil transported by the tanker. The ship was arrested by court order.
| American oil cannot possibly be an alternative treatment. |
As Regnum reported, in April 2023, the US Central Command announced the detention of the Advantage Sweet tanker in the Gulf of Oman by the Iranian navy. Tehran confirmed the detention of the vessel, saying it crashed into an Iranian ship, killing two crew members.
In January 2024, the Iranian Navy detained the tanker St. Nikolas. The ship was previously named Suez Rajan. In 2023, he was detained by the US Navy and seized a million barrels of Iranian oil transported in circumvention of US sanctions.
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