{"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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\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","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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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}]}}