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Watch: IRGC seizing fuel-smuggling foreign tanker

Thursday, 18 July 2019 3:20 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 18 July 2019 6:25 PM ]

This file photo taken on April 30, 2019, shows Iranian forces take part in the "National Persian Gulf day" in the Strait of Hormuz. (Photo by AFP)

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has released footage of foreign tanker smuggling fuel, which was seized by its naval units in the Persian Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz.

A local IRGC naval command post published the details of the seizure in a statement on Thursday.

According to the statement, the incident took place to the south of the Iranian Larak Island, in the northern part of the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday.

PressTV-Iran’s IRGC seizes foreign vessel smuggling fuel

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has seized a foreign vessel smuggling fuel in the Persian Gulf.

Zarif: Seized vessel not a tanker, but a smuggling ship

Later on Thursday, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is in New York to attend a meeting of the United Nations, told reporters that the vessel seized by the IRGC was not actually a tanker, but was a small ship used to smuggle one million liters – not one million barrels – of crude oil.