Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seize 2 oil tankers in Gulf |
TEHRAN — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Thursday seized two oil tankers with their foreign crews in Gulf waters for “smuggling fuel,” the Tasnim news agency reported.
It was not immediately clear what flags the tankers were carrying, nor the nationalities of the crews.
The seizures took place amid heightened tension, as Washington dispatched a naval group to the region after Tehran’s deadly response to anti-government protests and US President Donald Trump’s warning that Tehran must accept a nuclear deal.
“More than one million liters of smuggled fuel were found on board of the two vessels,” Tasnim reported, and a total of “15 foreign crew members were referred to the judiciary.”
The Guards captured the vessels near Iran’s Farsi island in the Gulf, the IRGC-linked agency said.
The tankers have been “engaged in smuggling........