<Anchor> The
shipping company is scheduled to speak with the crew members detained today (6th).
Various analyzes are being made as to why Iran detained our ships.
This is Jung Ban-seok.
<Reporter> The
arrested shipping company said that it was heard that our consul received a confirmation that it would be possible to speak with the sailors today through the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and that they would call the sailors today to check the status.
The captain of the'Korea Chemiho' captured earlier made a satellite phone call to a shipping company in Busan to inform them of the situation.
[Chunhee Lee/Korea Chemiho Shipbuilding Official: I guess you felt threatened by holding a gun.
It
seems
that they have already started separating the crew on one side.] The
captain's satellite phone was cut off with the report that the Iranians were confiscating the crew's cell phones.
The Iranian side is raising the issue of marine pollution as a reason for seizure, but analysts say that there is something else inside.
Since President Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, the conflict between the two countries amplified, and as we joined the sanctions as an ally, two banks in Korea are tied up with the export of Iranian crude oil.
It is presumed that this frozen funding problem is behind the seizure.
In addition, the day before the capture of the ship was the first cycle of the death of the commander of the elite Iranian army in a US air raid, and on the day of the capture, Iran has resumed enriching uranium as the United States sees. There is also an interpretation that it will be.