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Why is there what appears to be a van in the middle of the Med?
It's Clarkson, May and Hammond filming a challenge for the next season of TGT.
Why is there what appears to be a van in the middle of the Med?
Mohsen Rezaei said Iran would respond to bullies "without hesitation".
Mr Rezaei - a member of a council that advises the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei - said, in a tweet: "If Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the authorities' duty to seize a British oil tanker."
I'm not making the claim it was or wasn't, it seems silly it would go to so much trouble of sailing around Africa and not use the Suez canal and then just brazenly sail through the smallest of pockets of water in the area to get captured
Wonder how many UK registered oil tankers exists which use the strait of hormuz.
Due to tax reasons probably not many / any?
Just to answer this point. I’ve not fully looked up all of the vessel’s particulars, but the one that jumps out to me is her length, at 330 metres overall. That’ll put her firmly into the VLCC (very large crude carrier) bracket, she’d be far too big for the Suez, as vessels that size have a draft of about 30 metres or so when fully loaded.
The only way for one of those to make into from the Gulf into the Med would be via the straits of Gib.
So because of the fear of repercussions should we just allow criminal activity to occur to appease the offenders?
Let me guess.... FALSE FLAG?!Yeah, but it seems dumb to me, either the crew are idiots or this is staged.
Let me guess.... FALSE FLAG?!
We cherry pick which nations to apply international "law" to
I don't think we have any right morally or legally to tell Iran who they can or can't sell their own products to and it's only going to create more problems than solve
This has been explained to you several times but I'll give this ago - The UN has created sanctions against Iran and Syria. The ship was breaking these sanctions which means it was breaking the law so the police stopped it.
"We" (the UK) didn't cherry pick, "we" (the UK) did what the UN said which is to stop and arrest people who are breaking sanctions, which we did when we had proof it was happening.
Yet again "we" (the UK) are only enforcing the sanctions that all 193 Nations in the UN voted on (for/against/abstained) which gives the UN the "moral right" to decide what is the right level of punishment for the offences Iran has committed. In this situation "we" are the Police and the UN is the Law Maker, so complaining about the Police for upholding a law you don't agree with is just a waste of everyone's time.
You seem to be struggling with the difference between what the UN has done (made sanctions, told people to arrest anyone breaking them) and what the UK has done which is enforcing the sanction as you keep saying "we" like the UK did this all by itself.
This has been explained to you several times but I'll give this ago - The UN has created sanctions against Iran and Syria. The ship was breaking these sanctions which means it was breaking the law so the police stopped it.
"We" (the UK) didn't cherry pick, "we" (the UK) did what the UN said which is to stop and arrest people who are breaking sanctions, which we did when we had proof it was happening.
Yet again "we" (the UK) are only enforcing the sanctions that all 193 Nations in the UN voted on (for/against/abstained) which gives the UN the "moral right" to decide what is the right level of punishment for the offences Iran has committed. In this situation "we" are the Police and the UN is the Law Maker, so complaining about the Police for upholding a law you don't agree with is just a waste of everyone's time.
You seem to be struggling with the difference between what the UN has done (made sanctions, told people to arrest anyone breaking them) and what the UK has done which is enforcing the sanction as you keep saying "we" like the UK did this all by itself.
Well this is an issue isn't it, because it's a unilateral US sanction regime instead, there are no official UN sanctions on Iran as they were lifted 3 years ago.
The EU also has similar sanctions to the US bar the now seemingly pointless (because of whiny orange man bad) deal which is unlikely to be salvaged now.
This has been explained to you several times but I'll give this ago - The UN has created sanctions against Iran and Syria. The ship was breaking these sanctions which means it was breaking the law so the police stopped it.
"We" (the UK) didn't cherry pick, "we" (the UK) did what the UN said which is to stop and arrest people who are breaking sanctions, which we did when we had proof it was happening.
Yet again "we" (the UK) are only enforcing the sanctions that all 193 Nations in the UN voted on (for/against/abstained) which gives the UN the "moral right" to decide what is the right level of punishment for the offences Iran has committed. In this situation "we" are the Police and the UN is the Law Maker, so complaining about the Police for upholding a law you don't agree with is just a waste of everyone's time.
You seem to be struggling with the difference between what the UN has done (made sanctions, told people to arrest anyone breaking them) and what the UK has done which is enforcing the sanction as you keep saying "we" like the UK did this all by itself.
Before you spout utter garbage, it is EU sanctions, not UN sanctions
Before you spout utter garbage, it is EU sanctions, not UN sanctions as Russia and China keep giving veto's to any resolutions we and our fellow bullies try to draft through the UN
So yes, in this case we are cherry picking who to bully and who to allow to commit human rights atrocities (Saudi Arabia for example)
In this case there are UN sanctions against Syria - which preclude anyone whether Iran or anyone else from sailing an oil tanker into the supposed destination port of this ship
5 Prohibition on trading specified cultural property
(1)
A person must not, knowingly and without lawful justification or reasonable excuse, do either of the following things with specified cultural property:
(a)
trade or transfer the property to another person or entity:
(b)
import or export the property.
No mention of oil
Our Government is an embarrassment.
Engaging in an act of piracy to please our US masters and now we have (C)Hunt threatening a much more powerful country than us, China, with sanctions when they should be an important trading partner after Brexit.
I despair.