Turkey said on Friday that an Iranian tanker at the center of a confrontation be...
OSLO/ISTANBUL - Turkey said on Friday that an Iranian tanker at the center of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran was headed to Lebanon’s waters after changing course several times, although Beirut said it was not informed of the plan.
When the ship was released off Gibraltar in mid-August after a five-week standoff, Iran assured the United Kingdom that the cargo was not headed to Syria. Earlier on Friday, the minister told Reuters the ship was headed to Lebanon’s “main” port. “I didn’t mean that this tanker is going to a Lebanese port, but according to the information coordinates it is heading to the territorial waters of the country,” he later told reporters at an Oslo forum.
The ship had been detained off Gibraltar due to British suspicion that it was carrying Iranian oil to Syria in violation of European Union sanctions. Cavusoglu told Reuters that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke about the ship’s coordinates with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday. In a readout of the call, London said the leaders agreed it was vital to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon but did not mention the tanker.
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