{"id":40772,"date":"2019-09-07T13:23:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T13:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40772"},"modified":"2019-09-07T13:23:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T13:23:01","slug":"iran-warns-not-much-time-left-to-save-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40772","title":{"rendered":"Iran warns \u2018not much time left\u2019 to save deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"79\">\n<p>\nTEHRAN: Iran seized a boat and arrested 12 Filipinos as it busted a \u201cfuel-smuggling ring\u201d in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cA foreign tugboat was confiscated as well as 283,900 liters (75,000 gallons) of petrol worth 233.71 billion rials ($20.2 million),\u201d ISNA said, citing the coast guard chief in the southern province of Hormozgan.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cTwelve Philippine nationals were arrested and the relevant judiciary officials are currently taking the required legal measures,\u201d Major Hossein Dehaki was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\nDehaki said the group was suspected of operating a fuel-smuggling ring and the confiscated shipment had been intercepted close to Sirik county in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe seizure comes amid tensions in the Gulf after the United States unilaterally withdrew from a nuclear deal putting curbs on Iran\u2019s nuclear program in return for relief from sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe escalation has seen ships mysteriously attacked, drones downed and oil tankers seized in the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 a chokepoint for a third of world\u2019s seaborne oil.<\/p>\n<p>\nIran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps detained a \u201cforeign tanker\u201d in Gulf waters on July 14 for allegedly smuggling contraband fuel.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWith a capacity of two million liters and 12 foreign crew on board, the vessel was en route to deliver contraband fuel received from Iranian boats to foreign ships,\u201d the Guards said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\nMaritime tracking service TankerTrackers reported the Panamanian-flagged MT Riah, used in the strait for fueling other vessels, had crossed into Iranian waters, and at that point its automatic identification system stopped sending signals.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the most high-profile seizure, the Guards impounded the British-flagged Stena Impero tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on July 19 for breaking \u201cinternational maritime rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nIran also seized another ship on July 31 with seven foreign crew onboard over fuel smuggling, but it has not revealed the vessel\u2019s identity or the nationality of its crew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran seized a boat and arrested 12 Filipinos as it busted a \u201cfuel-smuggling ring\u201d in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported. \u201cA foreign tugboat was confiscated as well as 283,900 liters (75,000 gallons) of petrol worth 233.71 billion rials ($20.2 million),\u201d ISNA said, citing the coast guard chief&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40772","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=40772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}