Gibraltar has rejected a US legal request to seize the Iranian tanker that has been at the centre of a stand-off between Iran and the west.
The British overseas territory’s justice ministry said on Sunday that it was “unable to seek” a court order to provide the “restraining assistance required by the US”.
The Grace 1 has been held in Gibraltar since local police and British commandos apprehended the vessel on July 4 because it was suspected to be shipping 2.1m barrels of Iranian light crude oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions.
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