ARAB-IRANIAN RELATIONS - Aug. 6 - Tanker Suspected Of Carrying Oil Impounded.'IRNA' reports Iranian authorities impounded a tanker suspected of smuggling smuggling, illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition. Smuggling has been carried on in nearly all nations and has occasionally been adopted as an instrument of national policy, as by Great Britain 800 tons of Iraqi oil. (In the past, Iran has detained a number of vessels suspected of carrying smuggled smug·gle v. smug·gled, smug·gling, smug·gles v.tr. 1. To import or export without paying lawful customs charges or duties. 2. To bring in or take out illicitly or by stealth. Iraqi oil. Iraq is allowed to sell oil only under UN controls, with the proceeds used to fund humanitarian programs and Gulf War reparations War reparations refer to the monetary compensation intended to cover damage or injury during a war. Generally, the term war reparations refers to money or goods changing hands, rather than such property transfers as the annexation of land. . The sanctions cannot be lifted until the UN Security Council certifies that Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or . The US Navy in the Gulf has accused Iran of allowing smuggled Iraqi oil to pass through its territory in return for bribes.) |
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