{"id":47290,"date":"2019-07-18T11:23:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47290"},"modified":"2019-07-18T11:23:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:23:40","slug":"iran-seizes-foreign-tanker-smuggling-fuel-in-the-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47290","title":{"rendered":"Iran Seizes Foreign Tanker “Smuggling” Fuel In The Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Iran Seizes Foreign Tanker “Smuggling” Fuel In The Gulf<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has seized a foreign vessel with 12-crew members carrying one million barrels of oil. In an official Iranian media statement<\/a> early on Thursday, the country’s military asserted the tanker was caught “smuggling” the fuel through the Strait of Hormuz<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While details to the breaking story remain confused, with some early reports speculating it could be reference to the\u00a0Riah<\/em>\u00a0tanker which\u00a0since the past weekend disappeared<\/a>\u00a0as it drifted toward Iranian waters in the Strait of Hormuz, what is clear is that Tehran is ramping up the pressure,\u00a0perhaps now making good on its longtime threat to cut off global shipping through the vital oil passageway<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Illustrative image: tanker in the Persian Gulf.\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A foreign vessel smuggling one million liters of fuel in the Lark Island of the Persian Gulf has been seized,”<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0state run ISNA said, adding that the ship\u00a0was seized on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the same day Iran had claimed to have “rescued” the UAE-owned, Panamanian-flagged Riah as it was in need of repairs due to technical problems, however, neither Iran’s military nor media identified the seized vessel or its country in initial statements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Iran’s Press TV has issued the following details in a breaking statement<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incident took place to the south of the Iranian Lark Island on Sunday.<\/p>

IRGC naval forces, which were patrolling the waters on an anti-smuggling mission, acted against the vessel in\u00a0a \u201csurprise\u201d operation upon ascertaining the nature of its cargo and securing the required legal approval from Iranian authorities<\/strong>.<\/p>

The ship had loaded the fuel from Iranian dhows and was\u00a0about to hand it over to other foreign vessels in farther waters<\/strong>. The vessel, which had 12 foreign crewmembers aboard at the time of the mission, is capable of carrying two million liters of fuel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Iran Seizes Foreign Tanker “Smuggling” Fuel In The Gulf Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has seized a foreign vessel with 12-crew members carrying one million barrels of oil. In an official Iranian media statement early on Thursday, the country’s military asserted the tanker was caught “smuggling” the fuel through the Strait of Hormuz.  While details to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[441,12324,25565,26295,9311,4318],"class_list":["post-47290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-iran","tag-irgc","tag-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps","tag-press-tv","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47291,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47290\/revisions\/47291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}