Xinhua News Agency, Tehran, January 4 (Reporter Xia Chen) According to the Iranian Fars News Agency, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized a South Korean flag oil tanker in the Gulf on the 4th on the grounds that it "repeatedly violated laws and regulations related to the marine environment." ".
The report quoted a statement from the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as saying that at the request of the prosecutors in Hormozgan Province and the National Port and Maritime Administration, the Revolutionary Guards Navy seized the ship from Saudi Arabia’s Jubai in its jurisdiction that day. Leaving the oil tanker.
The report said that the tanker was carrying about 7,200 tons of petrochemicals, with crew members from South Korea and several Southeast Asian countries.
The ship was detained and docked in the southern port of Iran and transferred to the local judicial department for processing.