MNA A senior naval commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps says Iran will never allow the foreign forces to prance around its territorial waters. Speaking on Saturday a day before the anniversary of detaining the British-flagged Stena Impero tanker in the southern Iranian waters, the commander of IRGCs First Naval Region, Second Brigadier ...

ISNA | Mehdi Dehdar: The UK-flagged 'Stena Impero' oil tanker was released on Friday by Iran after nearly two months being in detention for violating international maritime rules in the Strait of Hormuz.  

Press TV - The British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which had been impounded in Irans Bandar Abbas port for two months over violation of international maritime law, has finally set sail and is leaving Iranian waters for Dubai, an Iranian organization and the ship owner confirmed Friday. The Ports and Maritime Organization in southern Hormozgan ...

IRNA Iran's Ambassador to London Hamid Baeidinejad said on Monday that seizure on British-flagged tanker Stena Impero was lifted. The Iranian ambassador to the UK tweeted on Monday that bans on the tanker were removed after legal and judicial procedures were completed on Monday. Islamic Revolution of Guard Corps announced on July 19 that it ...

France 24 - A British-flagged oil tanker, which had been held off the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas for more than two months, has set sail, a specialist shipping website reported on Tuesday. Government spokesman Ali Rabiei had announced on Monday that "the legal process has finished" and the Swedish-owned vessel was free to leave. "This morning's ...

The Wall Street Journal - Stena Impero is free to leave after Gibraltar released impounded tanker to Tehran in August Iran said a British-flagged tanker it seized in July on alleged maritime violations is free to leave, ending a monthslong standoff with the U.K. ahead of a United Nations summit where it faces tough questions over attacks on rival ...

Reuters - The chief executive of the Swedish firm that owns the Stena Impero, the British-flagged tanker detained by Tehran on July 19, said on Sunday he had been informed that the vessel may be released within a few hours. The Stena Impero was detained by Irans Revolutionary Guards in the Strait of Hormuz waterway for alleged marine violations,...

Sputnik - Tehran may release UK-flagged tanker Stena Impero in a few days, there are only several formalities left, the Iranian Foreign Ministry's Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said Monday. "The court hearing on this is almost finished, there are several small formalities that will be solved in the next few days and the ship will be released," Mousavi ...

Sputnik Seven crew members of the detained Stena Impero oil tanker, including a Russian sailor, have left Iran, the press attache of the Russian Embassy in Tehran, Andrey Ganenko, has stated. "Seven sailors have really left Iran, today they have left for Dubai. Concerning the rest of our citizens, they remain on board ...

Sputnik - The vessel was seized by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards on 20 July, just two weeks after British Royal Marines detained the Grace 1 tanker carrying Iranian oil near Gibraltar. Tehran states the ship had engaged in dangerous manoeuvres and rammed an Iranian fishing boat. According to Iranian Foreign Ministry, the Islamic Republic will ...

Tasnim An Iranian deputy minister of road said the case of a British oil tanker captured for violating the international maritime regulations at the Strait of Hormuz has come before a court in the countrys southern port city of Bandar Abbas. According to Mohammad Rastad, Britains Stena Impero oil tanker had been captured by the Iranian military forces ...

MNA Port and Maritime Organization of Iran (PMO) and Iranian Judiciary system are to decide on the case of the seized British oil tanker by IRGC, the corps' Navy Commander Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said on Sunday. There is no relation between the release of Grace 1 from Gibraltar and the British oil tanker detained by IRGC, he said. The ...

FNA - Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei praised the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) for downing an intruder US spy drone and a violator British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. "Before I went to visit the Persian Gulf islands, I met the Supreme Leader and asked for his recommendations about the trip," Ayatollah ...

MNA Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani said Wed. that Islamic Republic of Iran is standing stronger and more united than ever in pursuit of its goals and never gives in to bullying behavior of the enemies. Speaking during todays meeting of the Expediency Council (EC) in the afternoon, Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani ...

IRNA A senior Iranian lawmaker said that at the recent meeting with the UK envoy to Iran, he explained the legal aspects of the seizure of the UK tanker for violating Iranian territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. Iranian forces seized the UK tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on July 19, two weeks after a Panama-flagged tanker carrying Iran's oil ...

Express - Iranand the United Kingdom have been engaged in an ongoing skirmish after the British Navy seized an Iranian tanker off the coast of Gibraltar earlier this month. Tehran retaliated against Britain by taking over British-flagged tankerStena Imperowhile the cargo ship was transiting in the Strait of Hormuz. But German lefty activist Bijan Tavassoli ...

MNA Iranian ambassador to London, Hamid Baeidinejad, told Sky News that the two detained Iranian and British tankers are two separate issues that need to be tackled separately." On July 4, the UK seized a supertanker carrying Iranian oil near Gibraltar, alleging that it was violating unilateral European Union sanctions by carrying crude for Syria....

MNA Iranian ambassador to London, Hamid Baeidinejad, told Sky News that the two detained Iranian and British tankers are two separate issues that need to be tackled separately." On July 4, the UK seized a supertanker carrying Iranian oil near Gibraltar, alleging that it was violating unilateral European Union sanctions by carrying crude for Syria....

IRNA - Iranian Ambassador to London in a message expressed Tehran's opposition to exchanging the seized oil tankers with the United Kingdom. "Impossible to advance a quid pro quo or barter exchange of detained UK and Iranian ships as some British media suggest," Hamid Baeidinejad wrote on his Twitter account. He added: "UK has illegally detained ...

MNA Following the capture of British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz by Iran, many of the countries, including the Saudis, tried to make Iran's action illegal, while it was fully in line with international law. A while ago Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir wrote on Twitter: Any attack on the freedom of navigation is ...