Iran will unload about $50 million price of crude from a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker seized final 12 months, the semi-official Fars information company reported on Wednesday, in a tit-for-tat motion towards the United States.
Advantage Sweet is a Suezmax crude tanker that had been chartered by U.S. agency Chevron and was seized in April 2023 by Iran’s military following an alleged collision with an Iranian boat.
The unloading of the cargo follows a Tehran court docket order in favor of Iranian sufferers of Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a uncommon pores and skin illness, who had filed a lawsuit towards the “severe physical and mental harm” brought on by the non-provision of Swedish-made drugs, which is claimed to be brought on by U.S. sanctions in keeping with the lawsuit.
The report didn’t specify whether or not Iran’s seizure of the tanker’s oil will contribute to the EB sufferers.
In August 2023, a cargo of Iranian oil was unloaded off the coast of Texas from the Suez Rajan, a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker seized by the U.S.
This identical tanker, below the identify of St Nikolas, was seizedin the Gulf of Oman by Iran’s Navy earlier this 12 months following a court docket order.
(Reuters – Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; modifying by Jason Neely and Louise Heavens)
