Not long ago, Greece seized an Iranian oil tanker called the Pergas, and then the United States intervened to transfer the crude oil on board to another tanker and then transport it to the United States. Recently, Iran has retaliated against Greece, and this time it is the turn of the Americans to be anxious.
On May 27, local time, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized two Greek oil tankers near the Persian Gulf for violating relevant laws.
The incident stemmed from the failure of an Iranian-flagged oil tanker in April this year and the issuance of maritime requests to greece, but Greece did not help, but instead seized the tanker at the request of the United States, and then transferred 100,000 tons of crude oil on the tanker to other ships for shipment to the United States at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice. The United States is undoubtedly robbing, and Greece, as the executor of obedience to US hegemony, has borne the price for this.
That is, on the 27th, the Greek Foreign Ministry said that an Iranian helicopter landed on the Greek-flagged ship "Delta Poseidon", which was sailing in international waters 22 nautical miles off the coast of Iran, with two Greek citizens on the crew. Another Greek-flagged Cautious Warrior was also seized.
Greece believes that such iranian behavior violates international law and has complained to the Iranian ambassador to Athens. It is understood that these are two 100,000-ton tankers, each carrying 100,000 tons of oil, and has now been detained by Iran. This incident shows that Iranians are not vegetarians, and that when they say what they say, they can only say that Iran's wave of people has done a beautiful job in the way of others.
On the surface, this is an Iranian retaliation against Greece, but there are actually deep reasons. After the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis in February, the United States began to push for the resumption of negotiations on the Iran nuclear agreement in March, hoping to release Iran's oil export capacity, hedge the impact of the ban on Russian oil, and calm the rise in global oil prices caused by the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict.
But the United States does not want to make too many concessions, because one of the most important conditions proposed by the Iranian side is to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the blacklist of US terrorist-sponsored entities, and the United States is unwilling to accept this condition, so the negotiations have now been deadlocked for more than two months.
For the United States, Iran's oil export capacity cannot be released, the global oil price will not be controlled, and the United States cannot let go of sanctions against Russia.
For Iran, oil exports are an important source of foreign exchange and national income, and if oil exports remain subject to U.S. sanctions and embargoes, then revenues are greatly reduced.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards in this incident have a stake in nuclear negotiations. First of all, Iran is different from ordinary countries, strictly speaking, Iran is a dualistic state, one is theology, mainly some clergy, the power is in a dominant position in the entire state system, and the other layer is a secular government, belonging to the executive branch, under the leadership and domination of the previous layer of theology. So Iran's number one is not the president, but the supreme leader , Khamenei.
So if the Revolutionary Guards are on america's terrorism blacklist, the leaders of the theological hierarchy, their interests will also be severely affected by the Continued Sanctions of the Revolutionary Guards. So they hope for an early end to the sanctions on the Revolutionary Guards' blacklist. Therefore, this time it simply used the Greek seizure of a ship loaded with Iranian oil to let the Revolutionary Guards do this controversial thing, which is also hoping to solve the Iranian nuclear issue at an early date.
At present, the United States first wants to focus a lot of energy on the issue of Russia and Ukraine, and the second has just announced its strategy toward China, so he also has to involve a lot of energy in the Far East, so he really does not have such a big energy in the Middle East and in such an "old hot spot" area as the Persian Gulf to do some bigger things. More importantly, if Iran's oil production capacity continues to be locked in Iran, it will also be detrimental to the United States' dedication to sanctioning Russia.
Therefore, as far as the current situation is concerned, it still depends on the attitude of the United States. However, as far as the current situation is concerned, the seizure of The Greek oil tanker by Iran will not be very large, after all, it is not good for Iran and the United States, so the United States is likely to remain silent about Iran's action. Moreover, the United States confiscated one Iranian oil tanker, and Iran retaliated against the seizure of two Greek oil tankers, which eventually made Greece lose two oil tankers, and the United States and Iran did not lose, so it can be seen that the pro-American end is not good.