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Iran said to seize foreign tanker carrying 6 million liters of ‘smuggled diesel’ in Gulf of Oman
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A frame grab from a video released by Iran's Revolutionary Guard on November 3, 2021, shows the Guard speed boats, center, in front of a US warship, left, amid the seizure of a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker, right, in the Gulf of Oman. (Revolutionary Guard via AP)
Iran has seized a foreign tanker allegedly carrying 6 million liters of “smuggled diesel” in the Gulf of Oman, Iranian state media says.
Iran, which has some of the world’s lowest fuel prices due to heavy subsidies and the plunge in the value of its national currency, has been fighting rampant fuel smuggling by land to neighboring countries and by sea to Gulf Arab states.
State broadcaster IRIB does not mention the name of the vessel or provide its nationality on its website.
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