Posted on 09/05/2019 9:52:31 AM PDT by bananaman22
The United States has offered several million dollars to the captain of the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1 to steer it to a port in a country that would detain the ship on behalf of the United States, the Financial Times reported, citing emails that the top U.S. envoy for Iran had sent to the vessel’s captain.
“With this money you can have any life you wish and be well-off in old age,” the U.S. Special Representative for Iran, Brian Hook, wrote in an email to Adrian Darya’s captain Akhilesh Kumar, FT reports.
The email also contained a warning to the captain.
“If you choose not to take this easy path, life will be much harder for you,” Hook wrote, as carried by FT.
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I liked the scary part.
If he is an Iranian his entire family will be removed from the face of the Earth.
Junk and speculation to drive hits and possible movement on Oil Prices
millions for defense not one cent for tribute...
Sounds more like ham-fisted Iranian propaganda or the mechanisms of a Deep/State Department apparatchik hold over from the past administration.
He’s Indian. Most tankers are captained and manned by Indians.
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