(CNN) – Iran has seized an oil tanker it claimed was carrying 1 million liters of “smuggled fuel,” state news agency Press TV said on Thursday. The semi-official Fars news agency said Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps (IRGC) forces ambushed the tanker, carrying 12 people on board, on Sunday. The IRGC have denied seizing any other tankers, Fars said. It is unclear whether the tanker seized Sunday was the same vessel as one that Iran claimed to have assisted earlier this week. READ MORE
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