The British-flagged tanker Stena Impero is “free to leave,” Iranian officials said Monday, marking the end of a two-month standoff between Tehran and London over the detained vessel.<\/p>\n
This announcement comes a day before UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani are set to meet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.<\/p>\n
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) captured the Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz on July 19 amid increasing hostility between Tehran and the West. Twenty-three crew members — none of them British — were on board.<\/p>\n
While the tanker was sailing under a UK flag, the company that operates it is headquartered in Sweden. Earlier this month, seven Indian crew members aboard the tanker were released.<\/p>\n
The ship was seized two weeks after the UK detained an Iranian tanker off the coast of Gibraltar, a British overseas territory on the edge of southern Spain. Gibraltar authorities released that ship in late August, despite eleventh-hour efforts by the United States to halt the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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