Iranian official: Iran will punish Britain for detaining tanker
Iran “will certainly punish the English,” an Iranian
parliamentary official warned on Saturday, adding that Britain was “deceived”
by the US, following the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker on Thursday in
Gibraltar.
“The English have committed a big mistake,” Mohammad
Ebrahim Rezaei, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee
of the Iranian parliament, told the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA).
“The English were deceived by America, as the
Americans would not dare to do something like this, so they made the English do
it,” he claimed.
“The Americans are certainly aware that anyone who
violates our rights will certainly be punished, and that is why they fooled the
English into taking an idiotic action,” he said.
He added that Iran “will certainly punish the
English, and will impose a serious cost on England.”
