Iran took oil from Greek tankers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Iran released the tanker months later as London also released the Iranian vessel.
51% : TEHRAN, Iran (AP) --
51% : Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei acknowledged Saturday Iran took the oil from two Greek tankers last month in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf.
49% : Nonproliferation experts warn Iran has enriched enough up to 60 percent purity -- a short technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90 percent -- to make one nuclear weapon if it chooses.
49% : Khamenei acknowledged Saturday that Iran took the oil from two Greek tankers last month in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf.
49% : Khamenei acknowledged Saturday that Iran took the oil from two Greek tankers last month in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf.
47% : In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks on the anniversary of the death of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, shown in the poster at top center, at his mausoleum in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 4, 2022.
47% : In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd as he arrives at the anniversary of the death of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, shown in the poster at top center, at his mausoleum in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 4, 2022.
46% : Since the deal's collapse, Iran has run advanced centrifuges and has a rapidly growing stockpile of enriched uranium.
45% :Iran insists its program is for peaceful purposes, though United Nations experts and Western intelligence agencies say Iran had an organized military nuclear program through 2003.
38% : "But they use their media empire and extensive propaganda to accuse Iran of piracy.
38% : Tanker seizures have been a part of it since 2019, when Iran seized the British-flagged Stena Impero after the United Kingdom detained an Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar.
37% : Iran last year also seized and held a South Korean-flagged tanker for months amid a dispute over billions of dollars of frozen assets Seoul holds.
33% : Tehran has been enriching more uranium, closer to weapons-grade levels than ever before, causing concern that negotiators won't find a way back to the accord and raising the risk of a wider war.
32% : Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters, in his speech Saturday also accused the U.S. of supporting recent protests in Iran sparked by price hikes and the slashing of subsidies by the government.
30% : The seizures ratcheted up tensions between Iran and the West already simmering over Iran's tattered 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
29% : The U.S. Navy blamed Iran for a series of limpet mine attacks on vessels that damaged tankers in 2019, as well as for a fatal drone attack on an Israeli-linked oil tanker that killed two European crew members in 2021.
26% : The incidents began after then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from the nuclear deal, which saw Tehran drastically limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
19% :Tehran denies carrying out the attacks but a wider shadow war between Iran and the West has played out in the region's volatile waters.

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