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...Petroleum Corporation and the French energy company TotalEnergies....
...US authorities ordered a tanker of Iranian crude oil to redirect towards the US in recent days, in a move officials believe was the trigger for Iran’s decision to capture a US-bound tanker on Thursday....
...Buena Vista’s registered directors are two Indian nationals, Umesh Suvarna Vasu and John Pinto Agnelo, and the company also has an office in Dubai....
...Iranian forces have previously seized tankers during periods of heightened tension with the US and other western states....
...I need a national decision.” Additional reporting by Laura Pitel and Guy Chazan in Berlin, Sam Fleming in Brussels, Ben Hall in London and Leila Abboud in Paris...
...Iranian state-backed media later released a photo of armed forces abseiling from a helicopter on to a tanker’s deck....
...The DoJ last year seized Iranian oil found on the tanker Suez Rajan, which was sold for $74mn. The vessel’s owner pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate US international commerce laws....
...“We need a crushing attack,” Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s ultranationalist national security minister wrote on X....
...It was the seventh assault by Iranian forces on commercial shipping since 2021, the statement said....
...Including bulk carriers and tankers, the number is far higher....
...US national security adviser Jake Sullivan has urged Beijing to use its leverage with Tehran to rein in Iranian-backed Houthi attacks on vessels in the Red Sea in a back-channel meeting with Chinese foreign...
...“The effect is that container ships and oil and chemical tankers are having to take a 5,000-mile detour around Africa to reach Europe and elsewhere.”...
...a key question was whether the US might target Iranian assets....
...Other natural gas tanker operators are also changing routes....
...that Iran felt the need to flex its muscles more directly after months of tension and hostility across the Middle East came on January 11 when its naval forces dropped from a helicopter to seize an oil tanker...
...Since 2019 Houthis and other suspected Iranian proxies have struck at multiple vessels in the Middle East, seizing oil tankers and mounting clandestine attacks using limpet mines attached to hulls....
...the attack, the first such assault from its own territory against Israel, as retaliation for a suspected Israeli strike on its consular building in Damascus this month that killed several high-ranking Iranian...
...General CQ Brown, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, was also in Israel on Monday, following a visit by national security adviser Jake Sullivan last week....
...The Lex column is not convinced there are national security reasons for blocking the deal....
...Skinner responded by sending documents purporting to show that the Iranian tankers’ insurance had been cancelled at the end of 2011, when the EU sanctions came into force....
...Chhengpor Aun, a research fellow at the Cambodian think-tank Future Forum, described the canal as the fulfilment of a “national imagination” by addressing Cambodia’s deep psychic wound from the perceived...
...The talks came weeks after Iranian forces seized an oil tanker as it transited from a UAE port....
...And this was fuelled by the national police....
...Or take Gatik Ship Management: as the FT has reported, it is now one of the top ten biggest oil tanker fleets in the world — and it matters....
...Sheikh Tahnoon also made a secret visit to Iran in 2019 to help ease tensions between the two neighbours after an attack on oil tankers off the coast of UAE that the US blamed on Iran....
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