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US, UK will ‘regret’ seizing tanker off Gibraltar: Iran Guards
TEHRAN, July 11, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said
Thursday that the United States and Britain will “strongly regret” the
seizure of a tanker off Gibraltar, the semi-official Fars News Agency
reported.
“If the enemy had made the smallest assessment they wouldn’t have done this
act,” said Rear-Admiral Ali Fadavi, deputy commander in chief of the
Revolutionary Guards, referring to the seizure of an oil tanker late last
week by Gibraltar’s police aided by British Royal Marines.
He added that the seizure of the tanker was “stupidity… a trait the
American President has in spades and the British to some extent.”
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