Iran seized a US-sanctioned tanker carrying Iranian oil in the Gulf of Oman, the Islamic Republic’s army said Friday after American and Iranian forces clashed in the Strait of Hormuz.
The Barbados-flagged tanker, Ocean Koi, was stopped and forced back to the southern coast of Iran following an alleged attempt to “harm and disrupt oil exports … by exploiting regional conditions,” Tehran’s military said.
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