Iran Press/Iran news: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesmen Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said that Robert Macaire has not been summoned and he went to the foreign ministry to follow up on the oil tanker issue and in line with scheduled meetings.
Earlier on 4 July, the foreign ministry summoned Robert Macaire to inform him of Iran's protest over the illegal seizure of an Iranian oil tanker, IRNA reported.
According to Spanish officials, the Grace 1, Panamanian-flagged supertanker carrying Iranian oil, was seized by British patrol ships off Gibraltar and was detained on US orders.
British Royal Marines boarded the ship, which has a carrying capacity of 300,000 tons, early Thursday morning, dispatches reported.
Meanwhile, Iranian Government spokesman Ali Rabiei on Sunday deplored the UK Navy's illegal and unjustifiable seizure of an Iranian supertanker in the high seas.
Rabiei dismissed the UK government's statement that the seizure was to enforce the EU sanctions on Syria, saying that the UK Navy's act is the outright violation of the UN Security Council Resolution 2231 lifting sanctions on Iran, on one hand, and the UK is a signatory state to the JCPOA, on the other.
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