They say 24/7 business is liberation two Greek tankers held by Tehran since the end of May. The assessment is based on prior informal diplomatic contacts, on the basis of which there was a mutual understanding that when the Iranian ship, whose cargo was seized in Greece by the US authorities, is returned, both Greek tankers will be released. About 50 Filipino and Greek sailors are still being held on two Greek ships at Bandar Abbas.

After a legal and judicial maze between the American, Greek and German authorities, Greek justice decided that the cargo should be returned. Opera and so it happened. In particular, the transfer of 56,000 tons of Iranian oil from the Greek tanker Ice Energy (which was chartered by the US authorities during the initial seizure of the cargo) to the Iranian-flagged tanker Lana at the anchorage in the port of Piraeus. was completed in the previous twenty-four hours. Once the Lana leaves Greek waters for international waters, Tehran, according to diplomatic sources, will in turn proceed to release the two Greek tankers.

The 115,400 ton Lana, released in June by the Greek authorities, was towed from Karystos to the Piraeus anchorage in early July. The point where the Ice Energy tanker was also located, which took out a cargo of oil from Lana in response to a US lawsuit, which was eventually annulled in court.

The cargo of Iranian oil was returned by the Greek authorities.

Ice Energy is owned by Dy-nacom Tankers Management and was chartered in May on behalf of the US government through Times Navigation, which appealed the return of the shipment. However, the judiciary rejected the appeal, ruling that Times Navigation had no right to appeal.

Recall that the story began when the ship in question, which was renamed from Pegas to Lana in March, encountered a mechanical problem while sailing to the southern Peloponnese to transfer its cargo to another vessel. Due to bad weather conditions, he was forced to stop at Karystos. There it was detained on April 15, first due to sanctions against Russia, and then (when it became known that the ship had changed ownership and was not subject to sanctions) on Thursday, May 26, after filing a request for judicial assistance. United States on the grounds that proceeds from the sale of Iranian oil cargo will be used to finance terrorism. The seizure of Iranian crude oil in Greece provoked Tehran’s reaction: on May 27, the Revolutionary Guards retaliated by seizing two Greek-flagged tankers Delta Poseidon and Prudent Warrior in the Persian Gulf, where they remain.