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Ghost Dog

(16,881 posts)
Sat Aug 24, 2019, 05:10 AM Aug 2019

Iranian tanker switches destination, heads to Turkey

Source: Reuters

ATHENS (Reuters) - An Iranian tanker at the centre of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran has switched destination and is now heading to Turkey instead of southern Greece, data from real-time ship tracking website MarineTraffic showed on Saturday...




Read more: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mideast-iran-tanker-greece/iranian-tanker-switches-destination-heads-to-turkey-ship-tracking-data-idUKKCN1VE09H?il=0



A convenient location for her purposes:



The ship is, as I write, in the Strait of Sicily approaching Maltese waters:



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Iranian tanker switches destination, heads to Turkey (Original Post) Ghost Dog Aug 2019 OP
Go figure Roy Rolling Aug 2019 #1
"Greece had said it would not offer any facilities to the tanker" muriel_volestrangler Aug 2019 #2

Roy Rolling

(6,856 posts)
1. Go figure
Sat Aug 24, 2019, 09:15 AM
Aug 2019

Turkey is much closer to Syria. I guess the charade is over, Iran doesn’t give a rat’s ass about appearing to abide by sanctions.

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