The fact that Russia is blocking Ukraine’s grain exports to the Black Sea, and Iran seizes Greek tankers transporting oil to the Persian Gulf could spark debate over escorting tankers by Navy ships, according to analyst Cornelius Adebahr.
“These two events, if we look at them separately, allow this kind of narrative, you know, there are those countries that endanger the freedom of navigation and then something has to be done about it,” Adebahr told EURACTIV.com. the Carnegie Europe, a European think-tank for foreign policy and security policy analysis.
“And what can be done is military (measure), navy ships escorting political tankers in the Persian Gulf, or maybe navy ships escorting Ukrainian ships carrying grain and other food across the Black Sea. “So this is a discussion that can come,” he said.
The EU is exploring ways to unlock them cereals exports from Ukraine and transported safely across the Black Sea, through the Sea of ​​Marmara and then through the Mediterranean.
In order to be allowed cereal exportsthe Kremlin has asked the EU to lift some sanctions imposed on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, something that Germany and others have ruled out altogether.
At the same time, Iran seized two Greek oil tankers in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for Greece’s move to seize an Iranian tanker and allow the United States to seize its crude oil.
According to Greek press reports, Athens refuses to compensate Tehran for the seizure of the tanker, while on Monday US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken called on Iran to immediately release the two Greek tankers.
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