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2019-08-26 The Grand Turk
Iranian oil tanker pursued by US says it is going to Turkey
[DAWN] An Iranian-flagged oil tanker pursued by the US amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington changed its listed destination to a port in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
early on Saturday after Greece said it wouldn’t risk its relations with America by aiding it.

The crew of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1, updated its listed destination in its Automatic Identification System to Mesrin, Turkey, a port city in the country’s south and home to an oil terminal.

However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
mariners can input any destination into the AIS, so Turkey may not be its true destination. Mesrin is some 200 kilometres (125 miles) northwest of a refinery in Baniyas, Syria, where authorities alleged the Adrian Darya had been heading before being seized off Gibraltar in early July.

Iranian state media and officials did not immediately acknowledge the new reported destination of the Adrian Darya, which carries 2.1 million barrels of Iranian crude oil worth some $130 million. Nor was there any immediate reaction from Turkey, whose President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
deals directly with Tehran and Russia over Syria’s long war.

The ship-tracking website MarineTraffic.com showed the Adrian Darya’s position as just south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea. At current speeds, it estimated the Adrian Darya would reach Mesrin in about a week.

The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The tanker’s detention and later released by Gibraltar has fuelled the growing tensions between Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and the US after President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
unilaterally withdrew America from Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers over a year ago. In the time since, Iran lost billions of dollars in business deals allowed by the deal as the US re-imposed and created sanctions largely blocking Tehran from selling crude oil aboard, a crucial source of hard currency for the Islamic Theocratic Republic.

Posted by Fred 2019-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 Turkey's an ally? Very confusing.
Posted by Lex 2019-08-26 06:53||   2019-08-26 06:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Do they plan to skirt international waters? Can we pull them over in Turkish waters?
Posted by The peanut gallery 2019-08-26 17:26||   2019-08-26 17:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Is there a corollary to NATO's Article 5, s.t. along the lines of an affront to one is an affront to all [ NATO members]?
Posted by Lex 2019-08-26 21:41||   2019-08-26 21:41|| Front Page Top

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