{"id":66670,"date":"2019-07-25T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T12:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=66670"},"modified":"2019-07-25T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T12:12:11","slug":"iran-hints-at-possible-swap-for-seized-tankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/iran-hints-at-possible-swap-for-seized-tankers\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran hints at possible swap for seized tankers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Hassan Rouhani suggested on Wednesday that Iran might release a UK-flagged ship if Britain takes similar steps to release an Iranian oil tanker seized by the British Royal Navy off Gibraltar earlier this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His remarks could create an opening to reduce tensions as Boris Johnson becomes prime minister.  It\u2019s unclear how the new government will respond to Rouhani&#8217;s suggestion or the impasse with Iran. \u201cWe do not seek the continuation of tension with some European countries,\u201dRouhani said . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShould they be committed to international frameworks and give up their wrong actions, including what they did in Gibraltar, they will receive a proportional response from Iran.\u201d  Britain this week announced plans to develop and deploy a Europe-led \u201cmaritime protection mission\u201d to safeguard shipping in the area after Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard seized the Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz.Rouhani said that while Iran does not seek a military conflict, it will not allow threats to its security in the important waterway.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hassan Rouhani suggested on Wednesday that Iran might release a UK-flagged ship if Britain takes similar steps to release an Iranian oil tanker seized by the British Royal Navy off Gibraltar earlier this month. His remarks could create an opening to reduce tensions as Boris Johnson becomes prime minister. It\u2019s unclear how the new [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66673,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66670\/revisions\/66673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}