(Bloomberg) -- Iran plans to release within days a U.K.-flagged tanker it has held since mid-July.
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The judicial process is almost finalized and the Stena Impero will be freed after bureaucratic procedures are completed, said Abbas Mousavi, spokesman at the foreign ministry in Tehran, on Monday.
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Iran seized the ship shortly after the U.K. detained a vessel in Gibraltar that was allegedly carrying Iranian crude to Syria. Last month, Gibraltar released that ship, which has been renamed the Adrian Darya 1.
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