for more analysis i'm now joined by marcus kayyem senior fellow at the german institute for international and security affairs here in berlin so this is the 3rd taker that we know of at least that iran has seized in the past weeks is there any substance to these accusations of oil smuggling or is this just iran being provocative i think we have to do very different patents here 1st one sees seashell the british tanker was a clear political signal to the united kingdom to the west in general so it wasn't about the tanker as such but more political signal don't mess around with iran or the seizure of the the small vessel today and not the west a couple of weeks ago it seems to be a different pattern iran is fighting the smuggling of highly subsidized petroleum and all. the paper would be around the government to our country so i think it's a different pattern here. and this is a tense situation in the persian gulf whatever these patterns are what does this mean for europe for european oil supplies for european trade routes for the economy i mean in general your country's resource poor resou

for more analysis i'm now joined by marcus kayyem senior fellow at the german institute for international and security affairs here in berlin so this is the 3rd taker that we know of at least that iran has seized in the past weeks is there any substance to these accusations of oil smuggling or is this just iran being provocative i think we have to do very different patency and the 1st one sees seashell the british tanker was a clear political signal to the united kingdom to the west in general so it was not about the tanker as such but more political signal don't mess around with iran. the seizure of. these small vessel today and another vessel a couple of weeks ago it seems to be a different pattern iran is fighting the smuggling of highly subsidized petroleum and all. the paper would be around the governments to our.