Iran seizes another oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz as Gulf crisis erupts

[Zippyjuan]

This is at least the third tanker they have seized.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...edly-smuggling-diesel-fuel-isna-idUSKBN1W11BO

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have seized a vessel in the Gulf for allegedly smuggling 250,000 litres of diesel fuel to the United Arab Emirates, Iran’s semi-official Students News agency ISNA reported on Monday.

“It was detained near Iran’s Greater Tunb island in the Persian Gulf...the crew have been handed over to legal authorities in the southern Hormozgan province,” ISNA said, without elaborating on the nationalities of the crewmen.

The reported seizure coincided with raised international tensions following a weekend attack on a major oil installation in Saudi Arabia, Tehran’s longtime regional foe.

Responsibility for the strike was claimed by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement, while the United States has blamed Iran itself for the strike. Iran denies the accusation.

Iran, which has some of the world’s cheapest fuel prices due to heavy subsidies and the fall of its national currency, has been fighting rampant fuel smuggling by land to neighbouring countries and by sea to Gulf Arab states.

Iran stepped up its fight against smuggling fuel earlier this month when its coast guards seized a vessel for smuggling fuel in the Gulf and detained its 12 Filipino crew members.

In July, Iran seized a British oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz for alleged marine violations, two weeks after British forces detained an Iranian tanker near Gibraltar accused of taking oil to Syria in violation of European Union sanctions.

Iran’s Adrian Darya 1, formerly Grace 1, was released last month. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Monday that the British-flagged Steno Impero oil tanker will be released soon.

The latest reported ship seizure by Iran follows a series of incidents involving shipping in and near the Gulf after U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports took full effect in May.

The incidents coincided with stepped up attacks by the Houthis on targets in Saudi Arabia.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Ok, you have convinced everyone. When should the bombing of Iran start? Do you propose conventional weapons or nukes?

 

[Zippyjuan]

Ok, you have convinced everyone. When should the bombing of Iran start? Do you propose conventional weapons or nukes?

Trump says he has better than nukes (though he is given to exaggeration). https://taskandpurpose.com/trump-weapons-bigger-nukes

While commemorating the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks Wednesday at the Pentagon, the president warned terrorists that they would be obliterated if they attacked the United States again.

"If, for any reason, they come back to our country, we will go wherever they are and use power the likes of which the United States has never used before," Trump said. "And I'm not even talking about nuclear power. They will have never seen anything like what will happen to them."

This is at least the second time in as many months that the president has asserted the U.S. military does not need to use nuclear weapons to wreak destruction on a scale not seen since God whacked Sodom and Gomorrah.

This from the man who dropped the Mother of All Bombs on Afghanistan.

 

[acptulsa]

Why is the nationality of this tanker still a secret?

Iran reported the incident themselves. But has the company that owns it not figured out yet they have a ship missing? Or does the Western Misinformation Complex also have motivation to keep this a secret?

Ok, you have convinced everyone. When should the bombing of Iran start? Do you propose conventional weapons or nukes?

You know Zippy. He's for whatever allows the Federal Reserve to turn more debt into junk bond funny money.

 

[Swordsmyth]

Why is the nationality of this tanker still a secret?

Iran reported the incident themselves. But has the company that owns it not figured out yet they have a ship missing? Or does the Western Misinformation Complex also have motivation to keep this a secret?



You know Zippy. He's for whatever allows the Federal Reserve to turn more debt into junk bond funny money.

UAE

[h=2]Emirati-Flagged Ship Seized By Iran In Strait Of Hormuz On Suspicion Of Smuggling Diesel[/h]