The Guardian Council Spokesman Abbasali Kadkhodaei said that Iran’s measure to seize a trespassing British oil tanker was carried out according to the rule of reprisal in the international law. “The rule of reprisal is a recognized concept in international law and it is used in the face of another ...
Germany and France on Saturday called on Iran to immediately release a British oil tanker it seized in the Strait of Hormuz. The capture of the Swedish-owned, British-flagged Stena Impero on Friday by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was a “dangerous further aggravation of an already tense situation,” a German ...