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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard seizes two Greek oil tankers in Persian Gulf
[IsraelTimes] Helicopter-launched raids mark the first such incident in months, as tensions rise amid the West’s lagging nuclear talks with the regime; Greece calls incident ’piracy’Iran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized two Greek oil tankers Friday in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf, officials said. The action appeared to be retaliation for Athens’ assistance in the US seizure of crude oil from an Iranian-flagged tanker this week in the Mediterranean Sea due to violating Washington’s crushing sanctions on the Islamic Theocratic Republic. The raid marks the first major incident at sea in months as tensions remain high between Iran Posted by: trailing wife 2022-05-28 |
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