Iran announces the capture of a ship in the Persian Gulf

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The Iranian authorities have announced this Saturday the boarding of a tanker loaded with smuggled fuel. It has been carried out by troops from the 412th Zolfaghar Flotilla, belonging to the Revolutionary Guard. His command at the front, Colonel

, has confirmed to the Iranian agency Mehr that the ship was carrying 150,000 liters of diesel. The eleven members of the crew have been brought to justice in Parsian, Hormozgan province.

The local Fars agency, close to the Revolutionary Guardian Corps, has reported that the intervention took place in Iranian waters of the Persian Gulf, south of Iran. "With superior intelligence and timely action,

, in the geographic area of ​​the unit's operational area in the Persian Gulf, while loading the smuggled fuel," the paramilitary force assured in a release.

This incident is the latest in a series of similar actions in recent years. The sanctions regime reimposed by the US in 2018, and the fact that Iran has huge oil and gas reserves explain the existence of

An estimate by Fars ensures that last year between seven and 10 million liters of crude oil and diesel were smuggled out of the country.

The main destination countries for this product, often extracted from Iranian soil by land, are neighboring Pakistan and Turkey, countries with far smaller reserves. And although critics of the government

, numerous smugglers participate in it. The authorities, chaired by

, have pledged to intensify efforts to end these types of practices.

Just a year ago, Iran also announced the capture, under similar circumstances, of a Panamanian tanker carrying 300 tons of crude. It happened in a particular context. Iran and other US allied countries were embroiled in a dispute on the high seas that included captured ships and others wrecked in strange circumstances. After UK forces captured an Iranian tanker off Gibraltar, Iran seized a British one.

Such a situation not only

, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, but also prompted a series of countries to call for the assembly of an international fleet to confront Iran's harassment of the navigation through this important artery of water. Tehran has repeatedly denounced the sanctions, which prohibit it from extracting and exporting hydrocarbons safely and without hindrance. China imports a small amount covertly.

Earlier this month, the Revolutionary Guards announced with great pomp an action in waters near Hormuz, in the Gulf of Oman. According to Iranian sources, gliders and a Guardians helicopter successfully seized a ship loaded with fuel "stolen" from the hands of US forces. According to Iran's version, the

in a similar way to what had happened months before with an Iranian gasoline ship bound for Venezuela.

Washington denied the Iranians.

He admitted the rapprochement between his forces and the Iranians at sea, but denied that it was a collision and that they had taken the Vietnamese-flagged ship that the Guardians boarded and took to the waters of his country - days later it was released. .

This give and take between the two countries accounts for

, where Iran and the other signatories of the atomic pact will negotiate to revive it.

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