South Korea commission heads to Iran to find recover of seized tanker -Yonhap

A South Korean commission is streamer to Iran on Wednesday to find a recover of a chemicals tanker and a 20-member organisation seized in Gulf waters by Iranian forces, Yonhap news group reported.

Iran denied on Tuesday it was regulating a boat and a organisation as hostages, a day after it seized a tanker nearby a Strait of Hormuz while dire a direct for Seoul to recover $7 billion in supports solidified underneath US sanctions.

The seizure of a MT Hankuk Chemi has been seen as an try by Tehran to claim a demands, only dual weeks before President-elect Joe Biden takes business in a United States. Iran wants Biden to lift sanctions that were imposed by effusive President Donald Trump.

Seoul’s unfamiliar method had called in a Iranian envoy on Tuesday to call for early recover of a tanker and a organisation of 20. Iran had pronounced a boat was hold over environmental violations.

In a news submitted to parliament, a method pronounced South Korea is reviewing either a boat disregarded general law by polluting a waters, as claimed by Tehran, though also either Iran disregarded it during a boarding and seizure process.

South Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister Choi Jong-kun is scheduled to revisit Tehran on Sunday, a revisit that was formerly scheduled and during that a operation of shared issues will be discussed, a method pronounced on Tuesday.

In response to a seizure, meanwhile, Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism warned Japanese shippers to use additional counsel in operations in a area, an central during a ministry’s nautical business said.