NEW: Iran says it took a U.K. ship as the tanker and drone crisis worsens
Iran announced Friday afternoon it had seized a U.K.-flagged, Swedish-owned oil tanker it accused of illegal activities. The seizure came just hours after the Islamic Republic presented evidence purporting to prove the United States did not down an Iranian drone in the same strategic region the day before.
Iranian officials vowed to respond to the incident that both supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif likened to an act of"piracy." Trump's exit from that agreement, however, has been followed by mounting sanctions against Iran and, with European nations struggling to normalize trade ties as promised, Tehran has resumed enriching uranium at higher levels, though it has always denied seeking nuclear weapons. Iran has engaged in successive rounds of talks with the remaining parties to the nuclear accord, but has called on the U.S. to lift sanctions before engaging in diplomacy.
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