TEHRAN, Jul 23 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), seized a foreign vessel carrying 1.5 million litres of smuggled fuel, in the country’s southern waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Togo-flagged vessel, with 12 foreign crew members on board, was seized by the IRGC’s naval forces, off the coast of the southern province of Bushehr, following a judicial order, Tasnim quoted Heidar Honarian Mojarad, the commander of the IRGC Navy’s second region, as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that, as per the judicial order, the vessel had been transferred to the terminals of a petroleum products company in Bushehr to unload its smuggled fuel, which he said was diesel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier in the day, Reuters quoted British security firm, Ambrey, as saying that the IRGC had “intercepted a Togo-flagged, UAE-managed products tanker, carrying 1,500 tonnes of marine gas oil.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It added that, “the vessel had loaded marine gas oil off the coast of Iraq and was destined for the UAE’s Sharjah.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the government subsidy on fuel prices in Iran, smuggling fuel out of the country is a lucrative racket. Over the past few years, Iranian naval forces have seized a large number of ships with smuggled fuel on board.– NNN-TASNIM <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TEHRAN, Jul 23 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), seized a foreign vessel carrying 1.5 million litres of smuggled fuel, in the country’s southern waters. The Togo-flagged vessel, with 12 foreign crew members on board, was seized by the IRGC’s naval forces, off the coast of the southern province of Bushehr, following a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":271677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271678,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271674\/revisions\/271678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}