{"id":3685,"date":"2019-08-05T08:23:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T08:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2019-08-05T08:33:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T08:33:40","slug":"iran-seizes-foreign-tanker-in-persian-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=3685","title":{"rendered":"Iran seizes foreign tanker in Persian Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tehran, <\/strong>Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have seized a foreign tanker near the Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf for carrying 700,000 liters of smuggled fuel, state media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC public relations office said in a statement that following consultations with the legal and judicial officials, the force seized the vessel in a surprise attack near the Farsi Island, Iran&#8217;s official news agency IRNA reported.<\/p>\n<p>The tanker was taken to Bushehr Port and its cargo was turned in to the National Oil Distribution Company of Bushehr province.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s Press TV in its report said the tanker was smuggling fuel to some Arab countries.<\/p>\n<p>The reported incident comes after Iran last month seized British-flagged tanker the Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz, saying it had collided with a fishing vessel, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>It seized the Panama-flagged MT Riah also in the same area in July.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the US has blamed Iran for two separate attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman in May and June &#8211; an allegation Tehran has denied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran, Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have seized a foreign tanker near the Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf for carrying 700,000 liters of smuggled fuel, state media reported. The IRGC public relations office said in a statement that following consultations with the legal and judicial officials, the force seized the vessel in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3687,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions\/3687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}