BREAKING: Iran seizes tanker holding 900 tonnes of 'smuggled fuel' and 12 crew members, Fars news agency reports
Iran, which has some of the world's cheapest fuel prices, has been fighting rampant fuel smuggling by land to neighbouring countries and by sea to Gulf Arab states. / Photo: TRT World
Forces of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard have seized a tanker holding 900 metric tonnes of"smuggled fuel" and 12 crew members based on a court order, a report by the semi-official Fars news agency said. "A vessel carrying 900 tonnes of smuggled fuel with 12 crew members was seized by the Revolutionary Guard's Navy patrol vessels in the Persian Gulf with a court order," Fars news reported from Iran's southern port of Bandar Abbas on Friday.
British maritime security company Ambrey said on Thursday it was aware of an attempted seizure by Iranian forces of a small Tanzanian flagged tanker, around 59 nautical miles northeast of the Saudi Arabian port city of Dammam.
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