Iranian Oil Tanker Switches Destination to Turkey After It Was Headed for Greece

Iranian Oil Tanker Switches Destination to Turkey After It Was Headed for Greece
A view of the Grace 1—now known as Adrian Darya 1—supertanker is seen through the sea fog, in the British territory of Gibraltar, on Aug. 15, 2019. It was seized in July in a British Royal Navy operation off Gibraltar. AP Photo/Marcos Moreno
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An Iranian-flagged oil tanker pursued by the U.S. amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington changed its listed destination to a port in Turkey early Saturday, Aug. 24, after Greece said it wouldn’t risk its relations with the United States by aiding tanker.

The crew of the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1, updated its listed destination in its Automatic Identification System (AIS) to Mersin, Turkey, a port city in the country’s south and home to an oil terminal. The Adrian Darya had earlier put its intended destination as Kalamata, Greece, even though the port did not have the infrastructure to offload oil from the tanker.