Damascus-Sana
The United States continues its hostile approach to Iran, especially after the Trump administration disavowed the nuclear deal last year, using many methods, including threats and escalation, imposing unfair economic sanctions and restricting the export of Iranian oil and others.
The Trump administration, after failing to seize the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Daria after its release last month by the Gibraltar authorities, has attempted to co-opt and bribe the captain of the tanker with the money to change the route of the tanker to seize and confiscate it.
The newspaper reported that the official in charge of the Iranian file at the US State Department, Brian Hawk, sent e-mails to the captain of the tanker commander, Akhilesh Kumar, offering to offer millions of dollars in return for sailing the ship to a country where it could be detained.
According to US authorities, Kumar, who took over the leadership of the tanker in Gibraltar did not respond to the US offer, prompting the US Treasury to impose sanctions on him and the tanker.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, commenting on the British newspaper's mockery of the Hawk initiative, wrote in Twitter and Instagram tweets: `` After failing to piracy, the United States is resorting to direct blackmail, '' stressing that his country would sell its oil despite America's desperate attempts to prevent it.
The policy of threats and political orgy against Iran was adopted by US President Donald Trump against Iran since his arrival in the White House in 2017.In May 2018, he announced his country's unilateral withdrawal from the nuclear agreement signed between Iran and the P5 + 1 in 2015 and reimposed economic measures. Unfair and unlawful coercion against it.
Observers believe that Iran stands firm in the face of US and Western stakes and increasing political and economic pressure on Iran and is fully capable of defending itself against any aggression.
Iran has also repeatedly said that its full implementation of the nuclear deal is coupled with the possibility of selling oil and access to its full dues without restrictions and that the reversal of the decision to reduce Tehran's obligations under the agreement subject to opening a credit line of $ 15 billion or else the process of reducing commitments.
