7 Responses to “Iran seizes US ship with 34 sailors. Is there any doubt we are at war with Iran? This is the worst since the US hostage crisis during Carter administration”

1. Kurt Knabke
   April 28th, 2015 @ 10:01 am

   See what can happen when the U.S. gives up it’s sanctions against Iran while negotiating with them about anything. I pray for our Sailors.

2. Sandy Beach
   April 28th, 2015 @ 10:47 am

   According to the article you linked to:

   It was initially reported that a US cargo ship had been shot at and boarded, but it later emerged the ship was the MV Maersk Tigris, a Danish owned vessel registered in the Marshall Islands.

   It was NOT a United States ship.

3. Andrew Morris
   April 28th, 2015 @ 3:02 pm

   It was also in Iranian national waters

4. America First...
   April 28th, 2015 @ 3:55 pm

   This act of aggression was typical of Iran…

   Orly was right, though, about how unstable the Iranian Govt. is…

   They had the gaul taking this act and the hostages, too, before Reagan became President!

   These loonies are very dangerous!

5. Sandy Beach
   April 28th, 2015 @ 8:19 pm

   MAERSK TIGRIS (Container Ship registered in Marshall Is)

   The M/V Maersk Tigris was seized at the request of Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization, Iran’s semi-official news agency FARS is reporting, citing informed sources. The Marshall Islands-flagged vessel was seized after a relevant court order was issued, according to the source, indicating that the IPMO had monetary differences with the ship owner.
   https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/28/politics/iran-seizes-commercial-ship-u-s-official-says-no-americans-on-board/index.html

   Iran’s Fars news agency said the ship was seized at the request of Iran’s ports authority under a court order.

   But a spokesman for the Singapore-based company that manages the vessel, which usually includes hiring the crew, Rickmers Shipmanagement, said he did not know why Iran had taken action.
   https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/28/us-iran-usa-ship-idUSKBN0NJ1SB20150428

6. Sandy Beach
   April 28th, 2015 @ 8:38 pm

   poster 3, Re: President Reagan
   Don’t forget the Lebanon hostage crisis
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_hostage_crisis

   and the Iran–Contra affair
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair

7. Sandy Beach
   April 29th, 2015 @ 11:03 am

   Iran says cargo ship seized under court order

   Iranian maritime authorities said on Wednesday that Iran seized a ship carrying cargo for Denmark’s giant Maersk group under a legal ruling over a longstanding commercial dispute.

   Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards intercepted the Marshall Islands-flagged cargo vessel Maersk Tigris on Tuesday in the strategic Strait of Hormuz leading into the Gulf.

   The Iranian Port and Maritime Organisation, in a statement, said the vessel was intercepted “upon a legal order” and transferred to Shahid Bahonar port in southern Iran.

   The ruling was “based on a lawsuit by a private company called Pars Talayieh Oil Product company (Golden Pars Oil Products) against Maersk ship company,” it said.

   “This lawsuit has been ongoing in legal courts in recent years and the competent court has issued the ruling” after having heard from both sides in the dispute.

   It said Maersk was ordered to pay financial damages in what was a purely commercial case with no political dimensions. The ship can only be released “upon a judicial ruling”, it said.

   Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, speaking at New York University, said a lawsuit was filed against the ship’s owners between 15 and 16 years ago over an undelivered cargo.

   “It has gone through court proceedings in Tehran based on what I hear from the lawyer. The final decision by the court is that the ship’s owners are supposed to pay damages,” he said.
   [more at the link]

   https://news.yahoo.com/iran-says-cargo-ship-seized-under-court-order-144948849.html

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