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Iran says it seized foreign tanker smuggling 1 million litres of oil
short by Nandini Sinha / on Thursday, 18 July, 2019
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has seized a foreign oil tanker, claiming it was carrying one million litres of smuggled fuel, Iran's state media said. Iran had earlier provided assistance to the same tanker as had it suffered a technical glitch. Iran's move comes after one of its tankers was seized in Gibraltar for allegedly transferring oil to Syria illegally.
read more at The Guardian