An Iranian tanker (Samah) twelve days ago entered the Mediterranean Sea after crossing the Suez Canal. After a few miles, the ship stopped transmitting its location and destination by satellite.
The specific technique called “ghost ship” where the ship disables the tracking transceiver is done in order not to impose heavy sanctions on this shipping company by the USA and always based on international decisions.
Photo by the website www.southfront.org
This ship arrived in Syria accompanied by Surface vessels of the Russian Navy. In fact, it has been abolished the ban on oil deliveries to the Syrian government, in line with the current force of international decisions.
In 2019, the British Royal Navy had intercepted a similar Iranian tanker (Adrian Darya-1) that had crossed from Gibraltar for two months.
The Iranian tanker (Samah) with its entry into the Mediterranean Sea, was accompanied by a small convoy of Russian warships such as the Russian destroyer «Vice Admiral Kulikov», «Akademik Pashin».
The escort provided by the convoy of Russian Navy ships gives a new geopolitical development because it now acts as a shield to Russian-protected regimes around the world (Syria, Iran, Venezuela, etc.).
This action by Russia will in future increase the chances of political and military entanglements given the obvious difficulty that warships from other countries will have in intervening and controlling such ships and then imposing the embargo and any international sanctions.
Iranian tanker headed to Syrian oil terminal, Baniyas.
