Reuters is reporting that the US is boarding the sanctioned oil tanker Marinera (formerly Bella-1) after tracking it for two weeks across the Atlantic. The Iranian vessel was previously under the flag of Guyana but switched to Russia mid-journey. It is currently 124 miles south of Iceland and executing strange manoeuvres…
US forces launched from British soil. There is no oil on the vessel. The Russians are very interested in keeping it in their hands…
Reports said that Russia had dispatched a submarine to defend it. The tanker got through a US blockade off Venezuela. Things coming to a head now…
UPDATE: The RAF was involved in the operation. The US also says it has seized a second tanker – A “stateless, sanctioned dark fleet motor tanker” was taken before dawn.
Kemi Badenoch defended her decision not to force Tory councils to hold elections in May, telling GB News:
“It is Conservative policy that we should have elections, but I’m not a dictator. You know Nigel Farage, no one else makes any decisions, he’s a one-man band.”
