The shipping agent for an Iranian supertanker caught in a diplomatic standoff said on Saturday that the vessel is ready to depart Gibraltar on Sunday or Monday, despite last-minute effort by the US to seize it again, The Associated Press reported.

The head of the company sorting paperwork and procuring for the Grace 1 oil tanker in the British overseas territory said the vessel could be sailing away in the next "24 to 48 hours," once new crews dispatched to the territory take over command of the ship.


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