Iran has released a South Korea-flagged tanker three months after the elite Revolutionary Guards captured the vessel and raised tensions over US-led sanctions and Tehran’s nuclear programme.
Seoul said on Friday that the Hankuk Chemi departed Iran at 5.50am local time. “The captain and sailors are healthy and the ship and cargo are in good shape,” the foreign ministry said.
Iran’s foreign ministry said on Friday that an order to release the vessel followed an investigation into the Korean vessel’s violation of its laws. It is not clear whether the vessel was freed as a result of negotiations under way in Vienna between Tehran and the remaining signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal from which Donald Trump pulled out in 2018.
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