The Grace 1 oil tanker is spotted off the coast of Gibraltar, on July 6.
Gibraltar said the tanker was suspected of selling oil to Syria in breach of European Union sanctions. “The US justice department has applied to seize the Grace 1 on a number of allegations which are now being considered,” the government of Gibraltar said, adding the matter would return to the supreme court of Gibraltar at 2pm on Thursday.
The two seized tankers one in Gibraltar and one in Iran are seen as pawns in the standoff between Iran and the West, with their fate tangled in the diplomatic differences between the EU’s big powers and the United States.
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