Iran said on Monday that a British-flagged oil tanker is \u201cfree\u201d to leave more than two months after it was seized in the Gulf.<\/p>\n
Government spokesman Ali Rabiei said in a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency that the oil tanker Stena Impero is free to continue on its way.<\/p>\n
He did not specify when the Swedish-owned vessel would be allowed to set sail.<\/p>\n
Stena Bulk, the company that owns the tanker, said on Sunday that it expected the vessel to be released soon, but expressed caution about the situation.<\/p>\n
On July 19, the \u00a0Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran seized the British oil tanker in Gulf waters “for not falling in line with maritime rules.”<\/p>\n
The ship’s seizure came hours after a court in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar said it was extending the detention of the Grace 1, an Iranian oil tanker later renamed the Adrian Darya 1.<\/p>\n
At the time, Tehran denied the seizure of the Stena Impero was a tit-for-tat move. A Gibraltar court ordered the Iranian tanker’s release on August 15 despite an 11th-hour US legal bid to keep it in detention.<\/p>\n
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