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Posted on 12/11/2025 2:17:44 PM PST by DFG
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization and arm of the Iranian military, seized an oil vessel allegedly carrying “smuggled diesel” in the Persian Gulf, Tehran revealed on Thursday.
The unidentified ship was reportedly flying the flag of E-Swatini and was part of what Iran alleges is a massive trafficking scheme to steal Iranian oil and sell it abroad. The IRGC revealed the news on the same day that the Iranian government condemned the United States for staging a similar seizure of a ship accused of carrying illicit oil in the Caribbean following an appropriate warrant process. The U.S. government accused the seized ship in question of carrying sanctioned oil being used to profit the narco-regime governing Venezuela and its allies in Tehran.
The Iranian embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, accused the United States of “piracy” for seizing a ship accused of carrying illicit oil shipments hours after Iran revealed it had seized a ship accused of carrying illicit oil shipments.
According to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, IRGC commander General Heidar Honarian announced that the ship and 13 men on board were captured. He identified the men as Indian and from an unnamed “neighboring country” without elaborating.
“The IRGC said in a Wednesday statement that its naval forces had confiscated an Eswatini-flagged vessel transporting 0.35 million liters of smuggled diesel,” Tasnim reported.
“Iran has stepped up efforts to curb the smuggling of Iranian-made oil products in the Persian Gulf,” the outlet claimed. “These products, mainly motor fuels, are illegally shipped to Arab states in the region, where fuel prices can be more than 20 times higher than those inside Iran.”
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“..Eswatini is landlocked! How can it have any ships at all?...”
DEi. It will get you all sorts of dreamy things....
No oil tanker seizure by Iran reported today by United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations which reports on such actions.
Iran did seize a tanker last month.
Headline hypes Iran-Venezuela connection again reminding us that action against V is prelude to action against I.
Recover the tanker? It seems to be an Iranian tanker in the first place.
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