Iran have released the seized tanker Talara, having kept its cargo and yet nobody has complained! The reason is genius. Right, so Iran has just released a tanker it picked up in the Strait of Hormuz, sent the crew on their way, let the hull drift back into the shipping lanes and quietly kept thirty thousand tonnes of petrochemical cargo that used to belong to someone tied—through one of those Cyprus shell companies nobody ever admits owning—to the ruling circles in Azerbaijan, the same Azerbaijan that supplies most of Israel’s crude. And we’re meant to believe this was just an “illegal consignment” issue, as if the IRGC Navy woke up one morning and decided to do some housekeeping. The press swallowed that line whole because it’s easier than asking why a state that hasn’t seized anything in months suddenly took an interest in a vessel parked this  ...