US offers money to Iranian tanker captain to turn over the ship that US has sanctioned

Washington Free Beacon:
The United States offered millions in cash to tanker captains of Iranian vessels in a bid to seize Iranian ships, the State Department confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon.

The Financial Times on Wednesday reported that the Indian captain of an Iranian tanker suspected of shipping oil to Syria was offered several millions of dollars by Brian Hook, the U.S. representative for Iran and senior policy adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The State Department was offering the money to sail the ship to "a country that would impound the vessel on behalf of the U.S."

A State Department spokesperson confirmed to the Free Beacon that details in the Financial Times article were accurate.

The offer was made in a bid to disrupt illicit Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps activities, according to the spokesperson.

"The IRGC-QF is directing near monthly shipments of Iranian petroleum products—each worth tens of millions of dollars—to Syria and elsewhere to fund terrorist and militant activity across the Middle East," the spokesperson told the Free Beacon.
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The Trump administration remains tough on sanctions against Iran and Syria.

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