We always respond, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, told the New Yorker correspondent on Thursday, in New York. The lesson, he said, is dont play with Iran.
We say, You may start a war, but you wont be the ones who end it, Zarif told the New Yorker this week while in the American city for the United Nations Economic and Social Council session.
We will survive, we will prosper, long after President Trump is gone, Zarif said, at a second session with a small group of journalists, on Thursday. Our time slots are in millennia.
This comes as IRGC said in a statement on Friday that it seized a trespassing British tanker 'Stena Impero' at the request of Hormozgan Ports and Maritime Organization when passing through the Strait of Hormuz, for failing to respect international maritime rules. The oil tanker was transferred to the coast to undergo the required legal proceedings, the statement added.
An unnamed Iranian maritime official said the ship had breached international maritime regulations by passing through a prohibited maritime passage in the Strait, turning off its tracking signals and ignoring warnings issued by Iranian authorities.
On July 4, British Royal Marines in Gibraltar stormed the Iran-operated 300,000-tonne Grace 1 and detained it, accusing it of carrying oil to Syria in possible violation of the European Unions sanctions on the Arab country. Iran condemned the move as piracy and has called for the immediate release of the tanker.
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