The British oil tanker Stena Impero, seized in the Strait of Hormuz since mid-July, is allowed to „drive off“ in Teheran, according to the Iranian presidential office. „As reported earlier, the legal investigations have been completed, and the violations of the ship were forgiven,“ said government spokesman Ali Rabiei today.The decisions on the spot showed that the tanker should be allowed to go, the spokesman, according to news agency Fars. Whether the ship has already left Iran, Rabiei did not say.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards had ordered the ship on 19 July on the charge that it had violated the rules of the Law of the Sea in the Persian Gulf. According to Teheran, the legal investigations in the southern Iranian port of Bandar Abbas took 65 days.
