Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said that they seized a vessel in Gulf waters loaded with 250,000 liters of smuggled fuel.
According to the Iranian state news agency IRNA, the ship’s seven crew have been detained, consisting of Iranians and foreigners.
In a similar development, last week Iran seized a foreign vessel carrying 220,000 liters of smuggled fuel in the Gulf and detained its crew of 11.
As Reuters says, Iran has some of the world’s cheapest fuel prices, and has been fighting fuel smuggling by land to neighboring states and by sea to Gulf Arab states.
It has frequently seized boats it says are being used for smuggling oil in the Gulf.
