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Iran: The IRGC's Bold Seizure of a British Tanker Pushes the Risk of Escalation

Jul 19, 2019 | 19:51 GMT

A ship approaches supertanker Grace 1 off the coast of Gibraltar on July 6, 2019.

A ship approaches supertanker Grace 1 off the coast of Gibraltar on July 6, 2019. As if the standoff between Tehran and the West couldn't grow any tenser, Iran has now seized another oil tanker.

(JORGE GUERRERO/AFP/Getty Images)

The most significant in a series of events involving Iran during the week occurred July 19 with an announcement from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps that it had seized a British tanker -- and briefly halted the progress of another -- in the Persian Gulf. The tanker's capture adds yet another layer of stress atop already tense relations between the Islamic republic and the United States and its allies....

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