Russia Calls French Tanker Seizure "Piracy" as Sanctions War Escalates

🚢 ATLANTIC — Paris seizes a ship; Moscow calls it piracy. The sanctions architecture just went kinetic. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: A French-led seizure of a sanctions-busting tanker in the Atlantic means Europe is enforcing Iran-linked oil restrictions physically, not just on paper. Moscow's "piracy" framing is a legal counter — it delegitimizes Western interdiction doctrine before the next seizure. With Hormuz at 10% traffic, shadow fleet routes matter more than ever.