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On Friday night, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy seized a ship with the Panamanian flag in the waters of the Gulf, arrested 10 sailors and confiscated 300,000 liters of fuel.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard seized the ship
The semi-official news agency “Fars” reported that “the 412 Zulfiqar Division, affiliated with the 4th District of the Revolutionary Guard Army, stopped the ship off the coast of the Barisan governorate of Hormozgan province in the waters of the Gulf “.
A military source from the Revolutionary Guard indicated that “the file of the ship was handed over to the judicial authorities of the province, so that the case could be resolved.”
He said the ship was “smuggling fuel from another ship,” while the country to which the ship belongs, the destination of the smuggled fuel or the nationality of the sailors who were arrested have not been announced.
The Iranian media published a video of the ship while it was being held, and around it small Iranian ships appeared surrounding it.
In earlier times, Tehran detained dozens of foreign ships on fuel smuggling charges, and fuel smugglers are active on the Iranian border due to the low price due to huge subsidies and the declining value of its national currency in light. of US sanctions.
