Iran seizes oil tanker in Gulf of Oman, U.S. Navy says
in what the U.S. Navy said was the latest example of Tehran’s “continued harassment” of vessels operating in international waters.
The tanker issued a distress call during the seizure by Iranian Navy personnel, according to the Middle East-based U.S. 5th Fleet, which originally attributed the seizure to the paramilitary Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said the seizure came after an “unknown ship collided with an Iranian vessel last night in the Persian Gulf, causing several Iranian crew members to go missing and get injured.” It did not identify the other ship involved in the alleged collision.
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