"Sanchi sank 10 months ago. It is more than obvious that they copied and pasted the names from the older list of the sanctions," an Iranian Twitter user wrote. "Trump who won presidency thanks to 'fake news' is now using 'fake sanctions' by naming a ship that sank already … only to be the front-runner of unilateralism," another tweeter said of the reimposed US sanctions on Iran that went into effect Nov. 4. "God chooses our foes from among the stupid," read a third post that was part of a seemingly endless stream of comments about the US government "gaffe."
The Sanchi was a Panama-registered tanker hired by Iran's oil shipping operator. On Jan. 6, the South Korea-bound vessel collided with the CF Crystal about 160 nautical miles off the coast of China near Shanghai, leaving its entire crew of 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis dead.
