Saudi Arabia: Iran’s actions ‘completely unacceptable’

Saudi Arabia on Sunday slammed Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged tanker in a Persian Gulf waters as “completely unacceptable”, AFP reported.

“Any conflict on a leisure of navigation is a defilement of general law,” pronounced Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir in a post on Twitter.

“Iran contingency comprehend that a acts of intercepting ships, including many recently a British ship, are totally unacceptable,” he added.

Iran on Friday seized a Stena Impero tanker. Iran’s Fars news group pronounced a Revolutionary Guards had taken control of a Stena Impero after it collided with an Iranian fishing vessel whose trouble call it ignored.

Friday’s occurrence came dual weeks after a British naval force seized an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar on guess that it was carrying wanton oil to Syria, in defilement of EU sanctions.

The apprehension of a tanker hurt Iran, that cursed a pierce as an “illegal interception” and summoned a British envoy in protest.

On Saturday, Britain denounced Iran’s seizure of a oil tanker as a “hostile act”. In a minute to a UN Security Council, Britain pronounced a tanker was approached by Iranian army when it was in Omani territorial waters sportive a official right of passage.

Oman, meanwhile, on Sunday called on Iran to recover a Stena Impero.

The Gulf state, that distinct Saudi Arabia maintains clever ties with Iran, urged London and Tehran to solve their brawl by diplomacy.

Oman “looks brazen to a Iranian government’s recover of a British ship”, a unfamiliar method pronounced on Twitter, according to AFP.