Greece will not provide any assistance to the Iranian tanker released by Gibraltar last week, Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiades Varvitsiotis said in comments on ANT1 TV.
“We wouldn’t like to facilitate the transportation of oil to Syria and in no circumstance do we want to facilitate the course of the ship to Syria, ” Varvitsiotis said.
Owing to the ship’s large size, it can’t dock in Greece while the country would react were the vessel to enter Greek territorial waters, he said. Tehran has asked nothing of the Greek government, Varvitsiotis said.
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