Press TV - Britain lowers its so-called security risk level for UK-flagged ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. "UK-flagged ships will soon be able to transit the Strait of Hormuz without close Royal Naval accompaniment, Reuters quoted a spokesman for the British government as saying on Thursday. The official alleged ...

MNA The Iranian Ambassador to the UK Hamid Baedinejad has quoted Gibraltars chief ministers remarks as evidence to prove that Iran gave no commitments to Gibraltar and the UK on the destination of the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Daria 1. According to British newspaper telegraph, Gibraltars leader attempted to deescalate the crisis with Iran over ...

Tasnim Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said it is difficult to say whether Iran breached international rules by selling the Grace 1, now Adrian Darya 1, tankers oil, undercutting claims by London that the Islamic Republic had acted against assurances given to the territory. It is difficult to see whose word youd take for it, Picardo said ...

IRNA - Iranian Ambassador to London in a message said the super tanker Adrian Darya's cargo has been sold to a private company and has been delivered at sea, adding that its owner will identify its destination. Hamid Baeidinejad who was summoned by UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on the pretext of the so-called Iran's ...

IRNA - The super tanker Adrian Darya has unloaded its cargo from Iran in the Mediterranean Sea, said Iran's Foreign Ministry on Sunday. "Adrian Darya tanker berthed at Mediterranean shores despite the harasses and unloaded its cargo and its owner will decide about its future," Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi told IRNA on Sunday....

MNA US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Thursday he currently had no plan on his desk to seize the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, despite earlier reports about US offering of cash to its captain to hand it over. We do not talk about plans, but currently I have no plan right now sitting on my desk to do such a thing, Esper told ...

Tasnim Irans Embassy in London warned the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations shipping agency, about the US hazardous moves against an Iranian oil tanker that was recently released from Gibraltar despite Washingtons request to continue its detention. In a tweet late on Wednesday, Iranian Ambassador to London Hamid Baeedinejad ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said late on Wednesday that the United States has resorted to outright blackmailing. In response to a US bribery offer to the captain of Iranian oil tanker, Adrian Darya 1, then known as Grace 1, he emphasized, having failed at piracy, the United States has resorted to blackmailing. The supertanker ...

BBC - The US state department has confirmed it offered millions of dollars to the captain of an Iranian oil tanker which is at the centre of a diplomatic row. Brian Hook, head of the department's Iran Action Group, emailed the captain of the Adrian Darya 1 about sailing it somewhere the US could seize it. The vessel was suspected of moving oil ...

The Moscow Times - Crimea has offered Iran access to its ports as a way for Tehran to avoid Western sanctions on oil exports, a senior official in the annexed regions Kremlin-backed administration told Russian media. Iran is increasingly looking for alternative trade routes to skirt tensions in the Persian Gulf brought on by U.S. sanctions. The ...

Press TV - The United States has blacklisted the Iranian-operated supertanker Adrian Darya 1 and sanctioned its captain, according to the US Treasury Department. "The US Department of the Treasurys Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today against Adrian Darya 1, an oil tanker transporting 2.1 million barrels of Iranian crude oil ...

Reuters - Iranian tanker Adrian Darya, at the center of a dispute between Washington and Tehran, has changed course away from the Turkish coast, Refinitiv ship tracking data showed on Thursday. The tanker, formerly called Grace 1, was released from detention off Gibraltar in mid-August after a five-week standoff over whether it was carrying Iranian ...

Sputnik - The oil tanker was seized by Gibraltar on 4 July on suspicion of carrying oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions and released on 15 August. Four days later, the Middle Eastern nation confirmed that the tanker had left Gibraltar's waters. The Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya, formerly known as Grace 1, has changed its course, sailing ...

CBC News | Pete Evans: Last spring, the Grace I left a filling station in the middle of the Persian Gulf loaded down with 2.1 million barrels of Iranian crude. Too large for the Suez Canal, the oil tanker made the long journey around the coast of Africa before showing up at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea last month. British authorities in Gibraltar ...

Tehran Times - Nearly 10 days after the release of Iranian super tanker Grace 1 by the Gibraltar court, despite all the U.S. warnings that anyone dealing with the Iranian oil tanker would face sanctions, Iran announced that the supertankers 2 million-barrel cargo has been sold and the vessel is heading to a destination determined by the buyer. According ...

AP - Iran on Monday announced that the 2.1 million barrels of crude aboard an Iranian oil tanker pursued by the U.S. has been sold to an unnamed buyer as the ship, at the center of a crisis roiling the region, continued its voyage in the Mediterranean Sea. The announcement by government spokesman Ali Rabiei represent just the latest twist in the ...

Sputnik - The oil-laden Iranian tanker Adrian Darya currently appears to be heading to Turkey after its release from detention off Gibraltar after a five-week standoff. US National Security Adviser John Bolton has strongly urged not to allow the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya to off-load in a Mediterranean port, in a Twitter statement on Sunday. All ...

MNA Irans Navy is ready to safeguard its recently-released oil tanker Adian Darya 1 if necessary, says the Deputy Coordinator of the Iranian Army Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari. The Islamic Republics Navy is ready to escort Adrian Darya 1 oil tanker if it is required by the countrys authorities, Rear Admiral Sayyari said on Sunday. He referred ...

Tasnim The Iranian oil tanker released recently by Gibraltar is heading to a port in Turkey, a report said. The crew of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1, updated its listed destination in its Automatic Identification System to Mersin, Turkey, a port city in the country's south, AP reported. The ship-tracking website MarineTraffic....

Alwaght - Despite the last-minute US efforts to block the release of the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1, the vessel finally was released by Gibraltar court. The Adrian Darya 1, previously named Grace 1, headed east into the Mediterranean Sea on Monday hours after authorities in Gibraltar rejected a request from Washington to hold the ship. On ...