Iranian cleric: Britain should ‘fear’ Tehran’s reaction to tanker seizure
An Iranian cleric and member of Iran’s Assembly of
Experts, Mohammad Ali Mousavi Jazayeri, warned Britain on Saturday of Iran’s
“retaliatory actions,” following the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker on
Thursday in Gibraltar.
"I am openly saying that Britain should be
scared of Iran's retaliatory measures over the illegal seizure of the Iranian
oil tanker," the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Mohammad Ali
Mousavi Jazayeri as saying.
“We have shown that we never sit quietly against
bullying,” he said, adding: “Just like we reacted strongly to the violating
American drone, we will certainly produce the appropriate reaction regarding
this matter also.”
The Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Discernment
Council and former chief of the IRGC, Mohsen Rezaei had also warned Britain
that if it does not release the Iranian oil tanker it seized on Thursday in
Gibraltar, Iran’s “duty” would be to do the same, and seize a British oil
tanker.
“If England does not release the Iranian oil tanker,
it is the concerned authorities’ duty to seize an English oil tanker,” he
tweeted on Friday.
