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Why on Earth hasn’t the Trump administration seized that Iranian tanker?

By Tom Rogan
Published September 4, 2019 5:52pm ET
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Why on Earth hasn’t the Trump administration seized that Iranian tanker?
FILE - In this July 21, 2019, file photo, a speedboat of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard moves around a British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which was seized on Friday by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. | (Hasan Shirvani/AP)

What on Earth is the Trump administration thinking when it comes to the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya 1?

I ask because the Trump administration is acting like a headless chicken: hyperventilating about stopping the ship, but taking none of the easily practicable actions that might effect that outcome.

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