Athens won’t aid Iranian tanker, minister says

As an Iranian oil tanker which Washington wants seized heads toward Greece, officials Wednesday indicated that Athens would not help the ship reach Syria while seeking to play down the prospects of such a development.

In comments to ANT1 TV Wednesday, Alternate Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said Greece has "sent out a clear message, that there is no way we want to facilitate the transfer of oil to Syria." "We don't want to facilitate the course of that ship toward Syria," he said.
He added that the vessel, the Adrian Darya 1, was too big to dock at any Greek port. If it were to enter Greek territorial waters, Greek authorities would respond accordingly, he said, without elaborating. "There is no way that Greece wants to affect its relationship with the US, with which it has a close cooperation," he added.
Varvitsiotis said the US had been in contact with...

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