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‘It Was A Mistake To Trust Zarif’: US Sanctions Iranian Tanker Said Headed To Syria
Mike Pompeo is not happy with Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif, whose cameo at the G-7 in Biarritz last weekend shook up an already contentious multilateral summit that Donald Trump, pretensions to civility aside, did not want to attend.
"FM Zarif guaranteed to the UK that the IRGC oil tanker #Grace1/#AdrianDarya1 would not head to Syria", Pompeo tweeted on Friday evening, tagging both the vessel's old and new names, as well as Zarif's Twitter handle, a testament to the fact that all foreig
So what is it everybody expected to happen here??? Everybody is pushing their luck… Welcome to what hopefully is a new era in multilateral geopolitics…!!
Call in the French Navy scuba divers to do a ‘Rainbow Warrier’ number on it if it goes to a Syrian port to unload its contraband embargoed Iranian crude oil. Oh, I forgot, Macoun is trying to save the multi-lateral Iranian nuclear weapons freeze agreement. Oh well,,, send in the Seals.