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2024-07-23 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IRGC forces intercept UAE company's tanker, media reports
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, elite units of the Iranian army) naval forces intercepted a tanker of a UAE company in the Persian Gulf. This was reported on July 22 by Reuters, citing the British company Ambrey, which specializes in maritime security.

According to Ambrey, the detained vessel is a Togo-flagged tanker carrying a cargo of 1,500 tons of marine fuel (gas oil).

It is noted that the IRGC forces intercepted the vessel at a distance of 61 miles southwest of the port of Bushehr. At the same time, the company considers the probability of political motives in the actions of the elite Iranian military to be low.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the morning of January 11, armed men seized the oil tanker St Nikolas, which was sailing under the flag of the Marshall Islands, in the Gulf of Oman. The vessel belongs to a shipping company from Greece.

Later, Iranian media reported that the Iranian navy had seized a US oil tanker chartered by the Turkish company Tupras in the Gulf of Oman by court order.

On January 12, the US State Department called on Iran to immediately release the seized tanker and its crew. There were 19 people on board the vessel.

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