{"id":76068,"date":"2019-07-20T17:28:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T22:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=76068"},"modified":"2019-07-20T17:28:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T22:28:32","slug":"iran-british-tanker-ignored-distress-call-taken-to-bander-abbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/07\/20\/iran-british-tanker-ignored-distress-call-taken-to-bander-abbas\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: British Tanker \u2018Ignored Distress Call,\u2019 Taken to Bander Abbas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76069\" src=\"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglishWEBreu_hunt_iran.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglishWEBreu_hunt_iran.jpg 290w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglishWEBreu_hunt_iran-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglishWEBreu_hunt_iran-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglishWEBreu_hunt_iran-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglishWEBreu_hunt_iran-48x31.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>VOA &#8211; GENEVA \u2014&nbsp;Iran has taken a British-flagged oil tanker it seized in the Strait of Hormuz to Bandar Abbas port, where it and its crew will remain while an investigation into the vessel\u2019s conduct is carried out, Iran\u2019s Fars news agency said Saturday. The <em>Stena Impero<\/em> was in an accident with an Iranian fishing boat whose distress call it ignored, the agency quoted the head of Ports and Maritime Organization in southern Hormozgan province, Allahmorad Afifipour, as saying. It was taken to Bander Abbas, on Iran\u2019s southern coast and facing the strait.&nbsp; \u201cAll its 23 crew members will remain on the ship until the probe is over,\u201d Afifipour said. The crew is made up of 18 Indian nationals and five others of other nationalities, he said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The tanker\u2019s operator, Stena Bulk, said Friday the ship had been \u201cin full compliance with all navigation and international regulations,\u201d but was no longer under the crew\u2019s control and could not be contacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA &#8211; GENEVA \u2014&nbsp;Iran has taken a British-flagged oil tanker it seized in the Strait of Hormuz to Bandar Abbas port, where it and its crew will remain while an investigation into the vessel\u2019s conduct is carried out, Iran\u2019s Fars news agency said Saturday. The Stena Impero was in an accident with an Iranian fishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}