Iran’s former IRGC chief calls for seizure of British oil tanker
The Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Discernment
Council and former chief of the IRGC, Mohsen Rezaei warned on Friday that if
Britain does not release the Iranian oil tanker it seized on Thursday in
Gibraltar, Iran’s “duty” is to act alike and seize a British oil tanker.
“The Islamic Republic, in its 40-year long history,
has never initiated tensions in any battles, but it has [also] never hesitated
in responding to bullies,” Rezaei tweeted on Friday.
He added in the same tweet that “If England does not
release the Iranian oil tanker, it is the concerned authorities’ duty to seize
an English oil tanker.”
Also on Friday an Iranian senior official demanded
that Britain “immediately release” an oil tanker it has detained in Gibraltar,
accusing it of acting at the bidding of the United States.
