Ua mou atu le vaʻa suauʻu a le Emirates mai le radar, a o folau atu i le Strait of Hormuz latalata Iran.

O le vaʻa suauʻu Panamania na faʻaigoa o le 'Riah' e masani ona faʻamauina le suauʻu mai Dubai ma Sharjah i Fujairah, o se malaga e i lalo ifo o le 200 vaʻa sami e ave ai se tane vaʻa pei o lenei i le aso atoa i luga o le sami.

Peitai, a o ui atu i le Strait o Hormuz i le po o le Aso Toona, na tape faafuaseʻi le faailo o le vaa i le toeititi o le vaeluaga o le po, ina ua see ese mai lona ala ma faasino agai i le talafatai o Iran. E tusa ai ma faʻamaumauga o suʻesuʻega a le gataifale, e leʻi toe kiina lava le faailo, ma ua mou atu le vaa.

O le a la le mea ua tupu? I le vevesi ai o le US-Iranian, ma tuuaʻia ai Iran mo le tele o osofaiga i tane suauʻu e lata i le vaipanoa i nai masina ua tuanaʻi, na liliu atu ai le mafaufau i le Islamic Republic. O le aufaasalalau a Isalaelu na pikiina le tala i le Aso Lua, ma fausiaina e avea ma isi atinae i le talafaʻasolosolo faʻaauau, faʻamamafaina ai le Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei le tautoga i le Aso Lua e tali atu ai i le faoa faamalosi e Peretania o se Iraner tanker latalata i Gibraltar i le amataga o lenei masina.

O se sooupu mo le kamupani vaʻa e ana le 'Riah' - o le Mouj-al-Bahar General Trading - e faʻavae i Sharjah - na taʻu atu i le TradeWinds o le vaa na "gaoia" e pulega a Iran. Na lipotia e le CNN e faapea, o le US intelligence community “ua faateteleina le talitonuina” o le vaʻa na faamalosia i totonu o vai Iran e le apaau o le Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, ae na te leʻi faailoaina mai le mafuaʻaga.

E iai isi mafuaʻaga e ono mou ai se vaʻa. 'Upega Tafaʻilagi a Isaraelu TankerTrackers.com tuʻufaʻatasia lipoti o vaʻa talitonuina o loʻo tapeina a latou trackers e taula i uafu a Iran ma uta i luga suauʻu, i le solia o Amerika faʻasalaga. O le upega tafaʻilagi na lipotia se vaʻa Saina - le 'Sino Energy 1' - na mou ese i le faaiuga o le masina talu ai latalata i Iran, ae le i toe aliali mai na utaina atoa ma agai i le isi itu itu i le ono aso mulimuli ane. O loʻo pasi atu nei i Sigapoa ma toe foʻi atu i Saina.

Ae ui i lea, o se Emirates-faʻavae vaʻaiga e matua foliga mai e le fefaʻatauaʻi suauʻu ma Iran, talu ai le Emirates'feeseeseaiga faaupufai ma Tehran ma vavalalata vavalalata ma Saudi Arabia, o le lona lua sili ona tele suauu gaosi ma sili ona auina atu i fafo.

OA MEA E AVEA MAI LENEI TUSI:

Israeli media picked up the story on Tuesday, and framed it as another development in the ongoing saga, highlighting Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's vow on Tuesday to respond to Britain's seizure of an Iranian tanker near Gibraltar earlier this month.
The Panamanian-flagged oil tanker ‘Riah' usually transits oil from Dubai and Sharjah to Fujairah, a trip of just under 200 nautical miles that takes a tanker like this just over a day at sea.
However, an Emirates-based ship is extremely unlikely to be trading oil with Iran, given the Emirates' political differences with Tehran and close alliance with Saudi Arabia, the world's second-largest oil producer and largest exporter.