Iran seizes 283,000 liters of petrol in a Philippines ship

Tehran, Ta. September 7, 2019, Saturday

Iran today seized a Philippine vessel smuggling fuel from the Gulf of Hormuz and arrested 12 Filipinos inside it.

"12 Philippine nationals were arrested and relevant legal authorities were taking legal action against them," Major Hussein Dehaki was quoted as saying.

He further said that the seized group was believed to be involved in fuel smuggling. He was intercepted from the town of Ceric from the Gulf of Hormuz.

The ship was seized by Iran in the midst of a backlash from the United States to relieve the sanctions imposed by Iran's nuclear program.

The ship was mysteriously invaded due to growing turmoil, drones were submerged, and ships carrying oil from the Gulf of Hormuz were seized.

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on July 14 seized a foreign tanker in the Gulf of Gulf on charges of smuggling oil.

"A ship with a capacity of 20 million liters and 12 foreign sailors was taken aback when it was going to take a gallon of banned oil from an Iranian boat to a foreign ship," Gard said.

A maritime transport website called Tanker Trucks said that a ship with the flag of Panama had been captured while crossing the Iranian coast by Mt Riyah. Signals were also shut down due to an automatic identification system loss.