Racedo,

I believe a short ramble through British (or is it English....I get confused on the semantics of it all) History might remind you who we learned all that from and more.

Capturing a Terrorist or Non-Uniformed Combatant on the battlefield does differ a bit from a crew of mariners going about their daily business I should think.....don't you agree?

George Washington was a Non Uniformed Combatant for many a year.

Stopping oil going to Syria so it can continue to destroy IS/Al Aaeda with a crew of mariners comes along as the height of stupidity. Then again US Foreign Policy in Middle East is along those lines.

As for learning from the Brits, but like getting Ray Charles to provide driving lessons to Stevie Wonder and then wonder why are at the bottom of the cliff.

Its the Wilberforce worked to abolish Slavery, while many fellow Brits were making millions from type of hypocrisy.

Easy diplomatic solution:
Detain the GRACE 1 crew in Gibraltar and let them go through due legal process for breaching sanctions, then...
1. Fly out a new crew to take the ship back to Iran, full, or
2. Sell the fuel to a neutral country at baseline market price (without transportation costs), then the second crew take empty ship back to Iran. (But, the quantity of cash being carried on GRACE 1 would attract the attention of pirates around the Horn of Africa area = not our problem!!! - Send your speedboats out there!)
The first crew would likely try to claim asylum, get rejected and be home with family soon enough.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/pompeo...aptured-tanker

Helpful and supportive.

Only when others had cashed in on UK market share and were making more money. Slavery isn't abolished, tell that to the people in the open air slave markets in Libya that Uk helped reform,

Wonder where all the Libyan money will end up that UK Govt sequestrated.

No legal basis for sanctions in the first place. Iranians kept to their agreement. UK doing what Washington told them like a good lap dog.

The POTUS isn't a dictator (not yet, anyway). His/her agreements are not binding and don't carry the weight of the nation until they are ratified by the US Congress.
We rather like that the POTUS isn't a dictator and being limited in what they can unilaterally do or agree to.

The attempt at rewriting history such that London outlawed slavery, from thence on its citizens stopped being slavers is interesting, no factual basis for it but interesting never the less.

Security Council Resolution 2199(2015) was passed to prevent funding by oil smuggling.

Prevent funding of terrorism, namely ISIL, Al Qaeda etal, not Syria.

Let's just say the Brits were less likely to trade in slaves after the law was passed eh?

No-one has totally clean hands here but at least the Brits did something a long way ahead of many other countries

So US is breaking US Sec Council regs in allowing oil smuggling

Some were but others continued profitable. Moralising and being so against something when you know you position is no longer profitable or tenable is a very British Trait.

Like wanting to introduce Democracy to Hong Kong as you are leaving after ignoring it for the previous 90 years.

Has nobody considered that in responding to racedo all they are doing is priming a chatbot with its next response?

Epic thread drift...

Waiting for Boris speed-reading his first briefing then offhandedly announcing the tanker was indeed in Iranian waters and that the crew deserves everything coming to them.

Serious questions - what is the advantage of British flagging a Swedish-owned tanker with a predominantly Indian crew? Is it a tax thingy? Also, could other countries offer their flags as temporary flags of convenience to British shipping until the Iranians calm down a bit?