After running on its coast .. News of Iran's release of an Algerian oil tanker

The Anatolia news agency quoted a source in the Algerian Sonatrach as saying that Iran had released a tanker belonging to the company, after the APS reported earlier on Saturday that Iran forced the tanker to move to its territorial waters while crossing the Strait of Hormuz on Friday.

The Algerian agency pointed out that the ministries of energy and foreign affairs are working to address the matter, while no recorded human or material accidents.

"On Friday, 19 July at 7:30 pm Algerian time, the Coast Guard forces forced the Iranian Navy, the two-million-dollar Masdar oil tanker belonging to Sonatrach, The Strait of Hormuz, to sail to the territorial waters of the Iranian coast. "

"The ship was heading to Tanura (Ras Tanura refinery in Saudi Arabia) to ship crude oil to the Chinese company UNIPEC," the source said.

As a result, a follow-up cell between the Ministries of Energy and Foreign Affairs was immediately established to deal with this issue.

Novels and details
The developments come as the reactions continue as more stories and details emerge hours after the Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday.

While London said the seizure of the tanker was an act of hostility in Oman's territorial waters, Tehran said it had seized the tanker after it collided with a fishing boat with no cargo.

The British carrier was heading to a port in Saudi Arabia and changed course suddenly after crossing the Strait of Hormuz, which is located at the entrance to the Gulf and passes through five global oil supplies.

The United States has blamed Iran for a string of attacks on shipping around the Strait of Hormuz since mid-May, but Tehran rejects the charges.

The facts have heightened international fears that the two sides are sliding into a war in the strategic waterway. Washington is sending troops and military resources to Saudi Arabia for the first time since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 in response to mounting tensions.

Relations between Washington and Tehran deteriorated last year when Trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers and re-imposed sanctions, severely damaging Iran's economy.