SAEDNEWS: The IRGC Navy has seized an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that its naval forces successfully intercepted a ship carrying 4 million liters of smuggled fuel.
The vessel, manned by 16 non‑Iranian crew members, was attempting to leave 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 media that “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.”
Video footage of the seized vessel has been released by the IRGC.
