Iran’s IRGC seizes foreign tanker smuggling diesel in Persian Gulf

Iran’s Islamic Revolution's Guard Corps (IRGC) naval commandos have seized a foreign ship smuggling diesel in Persian Gulf waters.
The foreign vessel carrying
smuggled diesel was seized by the Iranian flotilla off the coast of the
southern Parsian, Hormozgan Province, on Saturday.
“Through intelligence monitoring
and in a well-coordinated operation, the Marines of this navy managed to seize
a foreign ship with 11 crew members in our country's waters,” said Colonel
Ahmad Hajian, the commander of the Naval Type 412 Zulfaqar in Parsian county.
“After the inspection, more than
150 thousand liters of smuggled diesel was seized and the 11 foreign crew
members were handed over to judicial offices of Parsian,” he added.
Hajian underscored that his unit
will “decisively encounter” any fuel smuggling in the sea for the support of
Iran’s economy.
The IRGC's Navy has also foiled
several attacks on both Iranian and foreign tankers.
Earlier this month, it
released detailed footage of its confrontation on October 25 against
an American act of piracy targeting an Iranian fuel shipment.
During the episode, American
forces confiscated the tanker that was carrying a cargo of Iranian oil in the
strategic Sea of Oman, transferring its consignment of crude to another vessel.
The IRGC then staged a maritime
operation against the second vessel, landing its helicopters on its deck and
navigating the ship towards Iranian waters.
Earlier, American forces had
confiscated a tanker carrying the cargo of Iranian oil in the strategic Sea of
Oman and transferred its consignment of crude to the IRGC-captured MV Sothys, a
Vietnamese-flagged ship.
Major General Hossein Salami, during his visit to
the IRGC’s marine units in the north of Iran on Sunday, reiterated that the
Islamic Republic possesses state-of-the-art marine technologies and that the
Islamic Republic will not allow any aggression against its territory.