Iran's army reported that an Iranian tanker successfully entered the country's territorial waters last night, despite repeated "threats" from the US military, The Caspian Post reports, citing foreign media.

“Despite multiple warnings and threats from the naval task force of the U.S. Army … the Iranian oil tanker Sili City, with the operational support of the Army Navy … entered Iranian territorial waters last night after passing through the Arabian Sea,” the army’s public relations office said in a statement relayed by Iran’s Mehr News Agency.

The tanker “has been stationed for several hours at one of the anchorages of the southern ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran”, continued the statement.