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[–] jobes 1 points (+1|-0)

The incident occurred almost a week after British Royal Marines boarded an Iranian tanker, Grace 1, off Gibraltar and seized it on suspicion that it was breaking sanctions by taking oil to Syria

Iran and Syria are close allies. What gives the UK the right to interfere in trade of two allied nations? They can impose sanctions on restricting trade on their own companies and those in allied nations, but there is no right to literally steal an oil tanker from another country because it's going to a country you don't like. That is literally an act of war

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0)

transporting sanctioned materials through western territories? similar to when panama captured heavy arms going between cuba and north korea, i think. if they want to stay outside of the sanctions they need to stay out of hostile territory and not use hostile banks or they're just asking for trouble.

[–] jobes 1 points (+1|-0)

Neither of those countries use hostile global banks, which might explain the constant wars and sanctions. Iran doesn't have many options for getting oil to Syria outside of going close to Europe. They can't exactly build a new pipeline through Iraq, that would be a shit show.

[–] [Deleted] 1 points (+1|-0) Edited

shipping lanes are always open, idk why they stopped off in gibraltar

*at least i've assumed they didnt just hijack an iranian boat out of a sea lane

[–] Dii_Casses [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

Iran doesn't have many options for getting oil to Syria outside of going close to Europe.

That's not an argument for why they shouldn't be embargoed, that's just the reason an embargo isn't toothless.