Soldato
wonder if the americans will break international law and seize the ship themselves militarily once it leaves eu waters
Apparently it’s been released, so much for the conspiraloons earlier in the thread ranting about the UK being a puppet state.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49379144
So what happens now, do they have to re-seize the ship now there's a warrant for its arrest from the US ?
What's sad is, no one is man enough to say "you know what fair enough, I was probably wrong and overreacted/made something up/let my conspiracy theories get the best of me/acted like a bit of a numpty/ran with an angle that turned out to be factually incorrect/insert any other dose of humility here".They can’t really say anything as it completely undermines their narrative, well aside from the lunatic who made serveral accounts, he just went on an unhinged rant as per usual.
China doesnt import from Iran so much that it's their whole enterprise, the Chinese have a huge Petrochemical industry (though mostly and logically for themselves).
It only accounted for ~6% in 2018 of their imports.
According to the Financial Times, Mr Hook sent an email to the Indian captain of the Adrian Darya 1, Akhilesh Kumar, before it imposed sanctions on the ship.
"I am writing with good news," the email read. The Trump administration was willing to pay the captain several million dollars to take the ship somewhere it could be seized by US authorities.
The emails reportedly carried a state department phone number to make sure the captain - who took over the ship after it was impounded - did not think they were fake.
Heh, the US State Dept sent an email to the Captain of the Iranian tanker offering him millions of dollars to sail the ship somewhere they could seize it
He ignored the email and so they put sanctions on him personally when they blacklisted the ship
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-49589075
It was probably caught in his spam filter
Heh, the US State Dept sent an email to the Captain of the Iranian tanker offering him millions of dollars to sail the ship somewhere they could seize it
He ignored the email and so they put sanctions on him personally when they blacklisted the ship
Radio operator: "Sir, it's the US state department for you, they want to give you millions of dollars"Wasn't he the new guy too? Anyway, as he was Indian maybe they should have gone via his wife or parents - see if he'd be able to turn down several million once some family pressure to take the cash kicked in.
Radio operator: "Sir, it's the US state department for you, they want to give you millions of dollars"
Captain: "not interested"
Radio operator: "Sir it's your wife, she sounds mad"
Captain: *shudders*
Iran has just proven to the world it can't be trusted then. That was a silly move