British Navy Group: Hijackers Have Left Vessel Off UAE Coast

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : Iran has denied involvement.
37% : While Iran claimed it detained the ship over pollution concerns, it appeared to link the seizure to negotiations over billions of dollars in Iranian assets frozen in South Korean banks.
36% : He denied that Iran played any role.
36% : And in January, armed Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops stormed a South Korean tanker and forced the ship to change course and travel to Iran.
35% : It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the attempted ship hijack, which unfolded amid heightened tensions between Iran and the West over Tehran's tattered 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
34% : Last year, an oil tanker sought by the U.S. for allegedly circumventing sanctions on Iran was hijacked off the Emirati coast and later ended up in Iran, though Tehran never acknowledged the incident.
32% : Most recently, the U.S., the U.K. and Israel have blamed Iran for a drone attack on an oil tanker linked to an Israeli billionaire off the coast of Oman that killed two people.
26% : The U.S. Navy blamed Iran for a series of limpet mine attacks on vessels that damaged tankers.

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