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Southeast Asia

Iran accused of seizing Singapore-bound tanker off coast of UAE

2025-11-15

[IsraelTimes] British military warns of ‘state activity’ after ship-tracking data shows Greek-owned, Marshall Islands-flagged vessel Talara suddenly diverted toward Islamic Republic.

A tanker transiting through the narrow Strait of Hormuz suddenly changed course into Iranian territorial waters Friday, with the British military warning that a possible "state activity" had affected it.

The warning from the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) center comes as a private security firm said small vessels had intercepted the ship earlier.

Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has not acknowledged the incident, which happened off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
Tehran in the past has seized ships amid tensions with the West.

Details offered by the UKMTO and the private security firm Ambrey corresponded to a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker called Talara, which had left Ajman in the United Arab Emirates bound for Singapore. The ship suddenly turned toward Iran without explanation, ship-tracking data analyzed by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named showed Friday. The ship’s Greek owners did not respond to requests for comment.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, Tremulus continued with his speech against Varius and his cohorts, watching as his colleagues dropped off to sleep one by one...
a US Navy MQ-4C Triton drone had been circling above the area where the Talara was for hours on Friday. The Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The US Navy has blamed Iran for a series of limpet mine attacks on vessels that damaged tankers in 2019, as well as for a fatal drone attack on an Israeli-linked oil tanker that killed two European crew members in 2021.

Those attacks began after US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
, in his first term in office, unilaterally withdrew from Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. The last major seizure came when Iran took two Greek tankers in May 2022 and held them until November of that year.

Those attacks found themselves subsumed by the Iranian-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s’ assaults targeting ships during the Israel-Hamas
Hamas

..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, which drastically reduced shipping in the crucial Red Sea corridor.

Rudaw adds:

According to Ambrey, the tanker, the Talara, was approached by three small boats as it transited southbound through the Strait of Hormuz and later deviated from its course in the Gulf of Oman.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) centre labeled the tanker’s movement as “suspicious” and said it was alerted to an incident occurring 20 nautical miles east of Khor Fakkan in the UAE.

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