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| Iranian navy seizes US-backed smuggling ship | |
| 2023-07-11 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [Regnum] The navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran has seized a foreign smuggling vessel with US support. This was announced on July 10 by Admiral of the IRGC Ramazan Zirahi. “A foreign ship carrying more than 1 million liters of smuggled fuel and which was detained on the border of the Persian Gulf waters belonging to Iran, operated with military support from the United States,” he said .
“During the search, it turned out that the captain of the ship was negotiating with an American command post near the scene,” IRNA quoted Zirahi as saying . In his opinion, the United States planned to send military equipment to help the smugglers, but the Iranian Navy promptly escorted them to the port. Earlier, the IRGC Navy detained an oil tanker under the flag of the Marshall Islands in the Gulf of Oman. On April 27, US Central Command accused Iran of violating international law and endangering regional security. The Iranian side confirmed the detention and explained that the tanker crashed into an Iranian ship, which killed two crew members. Later, the United States accused Iran of seizing an oil tanker that was sailing in the Strait of Hormuz under the flag of Panama. The press service of the Fifth Fleet said that he left Dubai and was transiting to the port of El Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates at the moment when several fast IRGC ships surrounded him and forced him to go towards Iranian territorial waters. In turn, the United States and Great Britain have repeatedly reported the detention of tankers with allegedly smuggled weapons coming from Iran in the Gulf of Oman. So, in March 2023, it was reported about the detention of a tanker that was transporting guided anti-tank missiles to Yemen. Tehran denied this, saying that the countries that caused the destruction of Yemen by supplying weapons there cannot justify their actions by blaming others. Related: Marshall Islands: 2023-07-07 Iran says it tried to intercept oil tanker after collision, ship fled to Omani waters Marshall Islands: 2023-05-10 Book Review: Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 Marshall Islands: 2023-04-27 Iran seizes US-bound oil tanker in international waters | |
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