Britain sending destroyer to Gulf amid Iranian threats
(WorldNews Iran)

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran on Friday demanded the British navy release an Iranian oil tanker seized last week off Gibraltar, accusing London of playing a “dangerous game� and threatening retribution, while London announced it was sending a destroyer to the Persian Gulf. The comments from Iran’s Foreign Ministry came the day after police in Gibraltar, a British overseas territory on the southern tip of Spain, said they arrested the captain and chief officer of the supertanker suspected of breaching European Union sanctions by carrying a shipment of Iranian crude oil to Syria. Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi told Iranian state news agency IRNA that “the legal...