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Iran summoned the British ambassador in protest at Britain’s “illegal interception” of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar on Thursday, the Iranian foreign ministry said. The British territory’s chief minister Fabian Picardo said earlier that a supertanker suspected of carrying crude oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions was detained in Gibraltar. “After the illegal interception of an Iranian …

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