{"id":40488,"date":"2019-08-15T21:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40488"},"modified":"2019-08-15T21:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:22:25","slug":"seized-iranian-tanker-released-despite-us-efforts-to-halt-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40488","title":{"rendered":"Seized Iranian tanker released despite US efforts to halt the move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A seized oil tanker at the center of a standoff between the UK and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/06\/03\/world\/meast\/iran-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> is free to set sail, despite eleventh-hour efforts by the United States to halt the move to release it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Supreme Court in the British territory of <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/07\/05\/middleeast\/oil-tanker-gibraltar-iran-intl-gbr\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gibraltar<\/a> approved the release of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2019\/07\/04\/uk\/tanker-syria-gibraltar-intl-gbr\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Grace 1<\/a>, which was seized off the country&#8217;s coast by authorities last month, after officials said they no longer wished to detain it. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Gibraltar said it had received assurances from Iran and the owners of the oil that, were the tanker to be released, its cargo would not be taken to Syria, which would be in breach of European Union sanctions.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A seized oil tanker at the center of a standoff between the UK and Iran is free to set sail, despite eleventh-hour efforts by the United States to halt the move to release it.The Supreme Court in the British territory of Gibraltar approved the release of the Grace 1, which was seized off the country&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}