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Watch: IRGC seizes foreign tanker smuggling fuel in Persian Gulf

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has confiscated a foreign oil tanker in the Persian Gulf that was smuggling fuel to some littoral Arab countries.

A commander with Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Ramezan Zirahi, told reporters on Sunday that patrols from the IRGC’s Naval District 2 had seized the ship near the Persian Gulf island of Farsi on Wednesday night after intelligence gathering.

According to the IRGC, the seized ship was carrying 700,000 liters of fuel for delivery to some Arab countries of the Persian Gulf.

This video shows the process through which the IRGC forces have halted and taken into custody the foreign oil tanker smuggling fuel.

 


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