Gibraltar extends Iranian tanker detention

By Guy Faulconbridge
Updated July 19 2019 - 10:53pm, first published 9:08pm
The Panama-registered Grace 1 tanker was seized by Gibraltar on suspicion of smuggling oil to Syria.
The Panama-registered Grace 1 tanker was seized by Gibraltar on suspicion of smuggling oil to Syria.

Gibraltar has been granted the power to detain Iran's Grace 1 oil tanker for another month, keeping the vessel at the centre of a big-power quarrel between Iran and the United States and its allies.

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