The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized a ship carrying 4 million litres of smuggled fuel in the Arabian Gulf, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday.
The ship was seized in a “precise operation and with complete intelligence”, the commander of the IRGC Navy Region 1, Brig Gen Gholamshahi, was quoted as saying.
It had 16 non-Iranian crew members on board and was about to leave Iran's territorial waters, the commander said.
Brig Gen Gholamshahi said intelligence investigations found that the ship had received a cargo of more than 4 million litres of smuggled fuel from smaller vessels and intended to transfer it larger vessels outside the Arabian Gulf.
“The case of this ship and its crew has been referred to the judicial authorities for consideration, and additional investigations are ongoing to identify the networks related to this smuggling,” he said.
“The
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