{"id":32437,"date":"2019-07-12T08:54:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T00:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=32437"},"modified":"2019-07-12T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T01:05:27","slug":"irans-irgc-denies-attempts-to-seize-british-oil-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=32437","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s IRGC Denies Attempts To Seize British Oil Tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEHRAN, Iran, July 12 (NNN-IRNA) &#8211; Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), denied that its naval forces intended to stop a British oil tanker, in the country&#8217;s southern waters on Thursday, Iranian state TV reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The IRGC&#8217;s Navy vessels carry out their regular patrolling missions in the Gulf with vigilance, precision and strength,&#8221; the IRGC Navy&#8217;s Fifth Naval Zone said, in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In the past 24 hours, there has been no encounter with foreign ships, including British ones,&#8221; the statement was quoted as saying, by Press TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on Thursday, Britain&#8217;s Ministry of Defence, said that, Iranian boats tried to impede a British oil tanker near the Gulf, before being driven off by a Royal Navy ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker, allegedly heading to Syria, by British Royal Marines in the Strait of Gibraltar last week, Iran warned Britain of the &#8220;consequences.&#8221;&#8211; NNN-IRNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Iran, July 12 (NNN-IRNA) &#8211; Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), denied that its naval forces intended to stop a British oil tanker, in the country&#8217;s southern waters on Thursday, Iranian state TV reported. &#8220;The IRGC&#8217;s Navy vessels carry out their regular patrolling missions in the Gulf with vigilance, precision and strength,&#8221; the IRGC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300,209,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32437"}],"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=32437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}