{"id":191741,"date":"2019-07-18T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T14:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191741"},"modified":"2019-07-20T05:30:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T05:30:39","slug":"irgc-says-seizes-fuel-smuggling-tanker-near-hormuz-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=191741","title":{"rendered":"IRGC says seizes fuel-smuggling tanker near Hormuz Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 July 18, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Tankers anchored in the straits of Hormuz. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has released details of its recent capturing of a foreign tanker smuggling one million liters of Iranian fuel near the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A local IRGC naval command post published the details in a statement, which was carried by Tasnim News Agency on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the statement, the incident took place to the south of the Iranian Larak Island on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

The statement hailed the naval forces\u2019 \u201cperceptiveness\u201d in frustrating the smuggling effort, adding that the crime had invoked due legal proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The [Iranian] naval units in this area\u00a0will continue to conduct security operations and missions aimed at confronting organized fuel smuggling efforts … decisively and keenly around the clock,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n

The forces \u201cdo not hesitate for a moment to preserve the Iranian nation\u2019s interests and assets,\u201d it noted.<\/span><\/p>\n

The statement also rejected reports by some Western media outlets trying to accuse the IRGC of seizing another vessel in recent days.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Islamic Republic has come under renewed oil and petrochemical sanctions by the United States. Washington restored the bans last year after leaving a multilateral nuclear accord with Iran and other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tehran, the United Nations, the European Union, and many major countries have denounced both the US departure from the deal and its reinstatement of the sanctions as \u201cillegal,\u201d citing the fact that the agreement has been endorsed in the form of a UN Security Council resolution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tehran has also vowed to preserve its right to oil and fuel revenues, condemning Washington\u2019s attempt at targeting it with \u201ceconomic terrorism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The US and some of its regional and international allies have, meanwhile, been trying to accuse\u00a0Iran of retaliatory naval sabotage aimed at disrupting international crude and fuel freight across the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Islamic Republic roundly rejects the accusations, and reminds how it had even come to the rescue of afflicted vessels in the waters.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry reported how the IRGC had assisted a foreign crude oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, after receiving a request for help from the vessel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some news agencies have suggested the ship was the Panamanian-flagged MT Riah, a ship that went missing on 14 July and appeared to have been taken into Iranian waters <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191744,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191741\/revisions\/191744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}