British government ministers are preparing plans to target the "Iranian regime" with sanctions after Tehran seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, the Telegraph newspaper reported.
She said Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt would announce on Sunday a package of diplomatic and economic measures against Iran, including freezing assets, in response to the detention of the British carrier "Stina Empiro".
The United Kingdom may also push for a re-imposition of EU and UN sanctions lifted in 2016 against the background of a nuclear deal with Tehran that allowed the end of a multi-billion dollar asset freeze and the sale of Iranian oil internationally.
Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani said on Sunday. What the Revolutionary Guards did was "a response to British piracy."
"The British have pirated and the Revolutionary Guard responded to that," Larijani said.
Authorities in the territory of Gibraltar, the Crown, reported on the fourth of this month that the elements of the British Marines and local police, detained an Iranian tanker off Gibraltar, was on its way to Syria, after being suspected of violating the sanctions imposed by the Union European Union on Syria. Iran has threatened to respond to this.
Indeed, Iran responded on Friday to the detention of the British-flagged "Stina Empero" tanker.
Tehran announced today that an Iranian oil tanker was forced to dock at Saudi Arabia´s port of Jeddah in May after a technical problem "released" by Saudi Arabia on Saturday.
