Gibraltar: (News Pulse/Monitoring desk) Gibraltar rejects US demand of seizing an Iranian oil tanker at the center of a diplomatic dispute as it prepared to leave the British overseas territory after weeks of detention.
Gibraltar’s government said that it could not seek a court order to detain the supertanker because US sanctions against Iran were not applicable in the European Union (EU).
The Gibraltar authorities said in a statement that the sanctions regime against Iran — which is applicable in Gibraltar — is much narrower than that applicable in the US.