Iran’s Tashim News Agency released a first video showing the detained British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced on July 19 that its naval forces had seized it under the pretext that the tanker was not observing international maritime regulations in the waterway.
? تصاویر جدید از توقیف #نفتکش_انگلیسی pic.twitter.com/PMyXiEfcXR
— خبرگزاری تسنیم ?? (@Tasnimnews_Fa) July 20, 2019
At the same time, most of the observers in retaliation for the UK’s capture of the ‘Grace 1’ off Gibraltar earlier in July.