{"id":127846,"date":"2019-09-07T13:21:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T17:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=127846"},"modified":"2019-09-07T13:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T17:22:54","slug":"bolton-goes-ballistic-after-failure-to-steal-iranian-oil-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=127846","title":{"rendered":"Bolton Goes Ballistic After Failure to Steal Iranian Oil Tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Bolton Lashes Out As Iranian Tanker Photographed Off Syrian Port Of Tartus<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1 is now located<strong>\u00a0just of off the Syrian port of Tartus<\/strong>\u00a0after it spent days with its signal transponder shut off in order to evade tracking,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-mideast-iran-tanker\/iranian-tanker-adrian-darya-1-photographed-off-syrian-port-tartus-u-s-satellite-firm-idUSKCN1VS04F\">Reuters<\/a>\u00a0reports, citing new satellite imagery provided by a US space technology company.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has done everything short of military action to thwart and detain the vessel, including issuing a seizure warrant and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-09-05\/us-now-cribbing-iran-policy-nigerian-email-scammers\">bribing the ship&#8217;s captain<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>millions of dollars to steer it into a US-allied port<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iranian tanker Adrian Darya 1 photographed off Syrian port Tartus: U.S. satellite firm <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gpMVrHh5gY\">https:\/\/t.co\/gpMVrHh5gY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m0GHlUgTq7\">pic.twitter.com\/m0GHlUgTq7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1170255584911921152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The tanker&#8217;s last signal had been issued on Monday when it was sailing between Cyprus and Syria before it went &#8220;dark&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>US officials have also reaffirmed their belief the Iran-flagged tanker which they say is controlled the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is bound to offload its oil to Syria (or conduct a ship-to-ship transfer) in violation of EU sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday US national security adviser John Bolton tweeted a satellite image of the vessel saying in apparent frustration,<em>\u00a0&#8220;Anyone who said the Adrian Darya-1 wasn&#8217;t headed to Syria is in denial.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anyone who said the Adrian Darya-1 wasn\u2019t headed to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Syria?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Syria<\/a> is in denial. Tehran thinks it\u2019s more important to fund the murderous Assad regime than provide for its own people. We can talk, but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a>\u2019s not getting any sanctions relief until it stops lying and spreading terror! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/saar05T8wt\">pic.twitter.com\/saar05T8wt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmbJohnBolton\/status\/1170122034577321984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Part of the US case for pressing UK\/Gibraltar authorities to not release the vessel from detention last month was that it would ultimately attempt a &#8216;illegal&#8217; delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Gibraltar&#8217;s Aug. 15th release of the vessel after Iran issued a written assurance it would not deliver its 2.1 million barrels of Iranian oil to Syria.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Syrians are celebrating the likely impending crude discharge as a welcome relief amid a summer of severe fuel shortages&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For several weeks, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> has challenged the &#39;civilized world&#39; to export oil to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Syria?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Syria<\/a>.  Tanker Adryan Darya-1 is emptying its cargo of 2.1 million barrels in Tartous, which will provide Syrians including my parents heating resource in the upcoming cold winter. <br \/>Thank you, Iran \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf7<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevork Almassian\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfe\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf2 (@KevorkAlmassian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KevorkAlmassian\/status\/1170267829641404416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-09-07\/bolton-lashes-out-iranian-tanker-photographed-syrian-port-tartus\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-09-07\/bolton-lashes-out-iranian-tanker-photographed-syrian-port-tartus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bolton Lashes Out As Iranian Tanker Photographed Off Syrian Port Of Tartus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}