How... convenient it was smuggling [SkyNews] The report added that the oil tanker had 12 foreign crew members on board and was involved in smuggling around one million litres of fuel from Iranian smugglers to foreign customers.
"Iranian smugglers" - Uh huh
"The vessel that Iran towed to its waters after receiving a distress call, was later seized with the order from the court as we found out that it was smuggling fuel," the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement quoted by state TV.
The Guards said they had seized no other ship in the Gulf.