Iran says that the investigation on the British ship …

The investigation that determines the fate of the British tanker captured Friday by Iran will depend on "cooperation" of the crew, warned Tehran, while London is studying "a series of options" before announcing his response.

Accused of "not respecting the international maritime code", the "Stena Impero" remains in the port of Bandar Abbas (south). His 23 crew members (18 Indians, three Russians, one Filipino and one Latvian) "are in good health," said Allah Morad Afifipoor, general manager of the port and maritime authority of the province of 39; Hormozgan.

"The investigation (…) depends on the cooperation of the members of the ship's crew and our access to the evidence necessary to examine the case," he added in an interview at Press TV, the information channel in English of Iranian State Television.

The British-flagged tanker, owned by a Swedish shipowner, was captured Friday in the Strait of Hormuz by Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

Afifipoor stated that the "Stena Impero" had "touched a fishing boat" that "contacted the tanker but had not received a response". The Iranian authorities have opened an investigation into the causes of the accident in accordance with the law.

According to the audio recording of the radio exchanges whose authenticity was confirmed by the British Ministry of Defense, the Revolutionary Guards implied the tanker to change course.

According to the same record shortly before the Iranian forces boarded the ship, a British frigate in the area contacted "Stena Impero" to tell her that her "pbadage under international law should not be disturbed, hindered, blocked ". or braking. "