Iran captures two Greek tankers amid row over US oil grab

Dubai (Web Desk) – Iranian forces seized two Greek tankers in the Gulf on Friday, shortly after Tehran warned it would take” punitive action” against Athens over the confiscation of Iranian canvas by the United States from a tanker held off the Greek seacoast. ” The Revolutionary Guards Navy moment seized two Greek tankers for violations in Gulf waters,” said a Guards statement, quoted by Iranian state news agency IRNA. It gave no farther details and didn’t say what the alleged violations were. Greece’s foreign ministry said an Iranian cortege copter landed on Greek flagged vessel Delta Poseidon, which was sailing in transnational waters, 22 navigational country miles from the Iranian reinforcement, and took the crew hostage, among them …

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