Iran Seizes Another Oil Tanker in Persian Gulf

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy has captured an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, located in the Persian Gulf.

IRGC has announced that its naval forces carried out a precise operation, successfully intercepting a ship laden with 4 million liters of smuggled fuel, The Caspian Post reports, citing Iranian media.

The vessel, crewed by 16 non‑Iranian sailors, was attempting to slip out of Iran’s territorial waters when it was seized.

Brigadier General Abbas Gholamshahi, Commander of the IRGC's First Naval District in the Persian Gulf told local Iranian media that "the IRGC naval forces detected suspicious activity on a large fuel tanker. Intelligence investigations revealed that the tanker had received a cargo of over 4 million liters of smuggled fuel from smaller vessels and was planning to offload it onto larger ships outside the Persian Gulf."