Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif insisted on Monday that his country’s seizure of a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf was not in retaliation for the British capture of an Iranian tanker two weeks earlier in Gibraltar, Reuters reports.
Zarif, speaking in Nicaragua, warned the West against “starting a conflict,” saying Iran was not seeking confrontation after its military seized the Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz.
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