The Iranian authorities announced today, Sunday, that the Revolutionary Guards seized two ships in the Persian Gulf on charges of smuggling fuel.
Today, Sunday, Iranian state television reported, citing the head of the judiciary in Hormozgan Province, Mojtaba Qahramani, that two ships carrying 50,000 liters of smuggled fuel were seized by the Navy of the Revolutionary Guards in the Persian Gulf.
The Iranian official added that the smugglers were intending to transfer the fuel shipments to a Gulf country - he did not name - indicating that the shipment was monitored through close monitoring, and in a coordinated operation by the Marines of the Revolutionary Guards.
Last November, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard seized a foreign ship carrying a large amount of smuggled fuel, in Hormozgan province, in the south of the country, and confiscated 150,000 liters of fuel, and began investigating 11 workers from the ship's crew.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard also released a Vietnamese oil tanker several months ago, which it had seized in the Gulf of Oman on October 24, after unloading its cargo.