{"id":3671,"date":"2019-07-21T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2019-07-21T09:30:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T05:00:01","slug":"uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s FM Says Iran may be on &#8216;Dangerous Path&#8217; after Seizing Tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday that he was worried that Iran had taken a \u201cdangerous path\u201d after it seized a British-flagged tanker on Friday in the Strait of Hormuz.<!--more--><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Ariana News Agency-\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Fars news agency reported that the Stena Impero had been taken to the port of Bander Abbas, which faces the strait, after it said the tanker had been involved in an accident with an Iranian fishing vessel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday\u2019s action in Gulf shows worrying signs Iran may be choosing a dangerous path of illegal and destabilising behaviour after Gibraltar\u2019s legal detention of oil bound for Syria,\u201d Hunt said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I said yesterday our reaction will be considered but robust. We have been trying to find a way to resolve Grace1 issue but will ensure the safety of our shipping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The British navy seized Iran\u2019s Grace 1 tanker in Gibraltar on July 4 on suspicion of smuggling oil to Syria in breach of European Union sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt also said he was very concerned about the loss of contact between jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family after she was moved from a prison in Tehran to a psychiatric ward in a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d hoped this meant she was getting medical treatment she needs but the fact that she has been cut off from contact with her family is giving us huge cause for concern,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in 2016 at a Tehran airport as she headed back to Britain with her daughter after a family visit. She was convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran\u2019s clerical establishment and sentenced to five years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Her family and the Foundation, a charity organisation that operates independently of Thomson Reuters and Reuters News, deny the charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday that he was worried that Iran had taken a \u201cdangerous path\u201d after it seized a British-flagged tanker on Friday in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":[],"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"","target":"0","top_stories":"0","top":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[87,597,267],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-iran","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-uk"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":false,"top":false,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UK&#039;s FM Says Iran may be on &#039;Dangerous Path&#039; after Seizing Tanker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday that he was worried that Iran had taken a \u201cdangerous path\u201d after it seized a British-flagged tanker\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UK&#039;s FM Says Iran may be on &#039;Dangerous Path&#039; after Seizing Tanker\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday that he was worried that Iran had taken a \u201cdangerous path\u201d after it seized a British-flagged tanker\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ariana News Agency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-07-21T05:00:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Capture-4.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"685\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"467\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/world\\\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/world\\\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734\"},\"headline\":\"UK&#8217;s FM Says Iran may be on &#8216;Dangerous Path&#8217; after Seizing Tanker\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-21T05:00:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/world\\\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":317,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/world\\\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/media.ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/Capture-4.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Iran\",\"Strait of Hormuz\",\"UK\"],\"articleSection\":[\"World\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/world\\\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/world\\\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/world\\\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\\\/\",\"name\":\"UK's FM Says Iran may be on 'Dangerous Path' after Seizing Tanker\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/world\\\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/world\\\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/media.ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/Capture-4.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-21T05:00:01+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734\"},\"description\":\"British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday that he was worried that Iran had taken a \u201cdangerous path\u201d after it seized a British-flagged tanker\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/world\\\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/world\\\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/world\\\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/media.ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/Capture-4.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/media.ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/Capture-4.jpg\",\"width\":685,\"height\":467},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/world\\\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"UK&#8217;s FM Says Iran may be on &#8216;Dangerous Path&#8217; after Seizing Tanker\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ariana News Agency\",\"description\":\"Afghanistan News - Breaking News\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/ariananews.co\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734\",\"name\":\"Admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Admin\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"UK's FM Says Iran may be on 'Dangerous Path' after Seizing Tanker","description":"British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday that he was worried that Iran had taken a \u201cdangerous path\u201d after it seized a British-flagged tanker","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"UK's FM Says Iran may be on 'Dangerous Path' after Seizing Tanker","og_description":"British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday that he was worried that Iran had taken a \u201cdangerous path\u201d after it seized a British-flagged tanker","og_url":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/","og_site_name":"Ariana News Agency","article_published_time":"2019-07-21T05:00:01+00:00","og_image":[{"width":685,"height":467,"url":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Capture-4.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Admin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/"},"author":{"name":"Admin","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734"},"headline":"UK&#8217;s FM Says Iran may be on &#8216;Dangerous Path&#8217; after Seizing Tanker","datePublished":"2019-07-21T05:00:01+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/"},"wordCount":317,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/media.ariananews.co\/en\/2019\/07\/Capture-4.jpg","keywords":["Iran","Strait of Hormuz","UK"],"articleSection":["World"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/","url":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/","name":"UK's FM Says Iran may be on 'Dangerous Path' after Seizing Tanker","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/media.ariananews.co\/en\/2019\/07\/Capture-4.jpg","datePublished":"2019-07-21T05:00:01+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734"},"description":"British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday that he was worried that Iran had taken a \u201cdangerous path\u201d after it seized a British-flagged tanker","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/media.ariananews.co\/en\/2019\/07\/Capture-4.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/media.ariananews.co\/en\/2019\/07\/Capture-4.jpg","width":685,"height":467},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/world\/uks-fm-says-iran-may-be-on-dangerous-path-after-seizing-tanker\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"UK&#8217;s FM Says Iran may be on &#8216;Dangerous Path&#8217; after Seizing Tanker"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/","name":"Ariana News Agency","description":"Afghanistan News - Breaking News","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2a55fc1759fcc9a9cf7b75da257d8734","name":"Admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/621162a72ad45d45b191510a866bb6bc3c1f2361186666783d0f69b77edbaa2b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Admin"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/media\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/sar0odfo-0d5s8fw-api0\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}