Iran Guards seize ship smuggling fuel in Gulf
Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized a foreign vessel smuggling fuel in the Gulf and arrested its crew members, state media said yesterday, in the third such incident reported this month.
The Guards "seized a foreign vessel carrying 200,000 litres (around 53,000 gallons) of smuggled fuel in the north of the Persian Gulf and directed it to Bushehr (port)", state broadcaster IRIB said, quoting a statement by the Guards's Navy.
"Eight crew members of the vessel, who are foreigners, were arrested and taken to Bushehr port, where they will be handed over to the judicial authorities to complete the investigation and legal processes," it added.
The crewmen's nationalities were not specified.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is the ideological arm of Iran's military.
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