Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seized a tanker holding 900 metric tons of “smuggled fuel” and 12 crew members based on a court order, a report by the semi-official Fars news agency said on Friday.
“A vessel carrying 900 tons of smuggled fuel with 12 crew members was seized by the Revolutionary Guards’ Navy patrol vessels in the [Arabian] Gulf with a court order,” Fars news reported from Iran’s southern port of Bandar Abbas.
Iran tried to seize two oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz early Wednesday, firing shots at one of them, the US Navy said.
ReplyDeleteIt said that in both cases, the Iranian naval vessels backed off after the US Navy responded, and that both commercial ships continued their voyages.