Tag: Iran

An Iranian warship on Saturday prevented an attack by pirates against two oil tankers that it was escorting in the Gulf of Aden.

An Iran-flagged supertanker on Saturday was about to set sail from Venezuelan waters carrying 2 million barrels of heavy crude, according to documents seen by Reuters.

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on a foreign broker, involved in an international oil smuggling network that supports Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF).

After being held in an Iranian jail for months, four Indian seafarers were released on July 29. However, hours after, they were once again taken back to prison.

After the recent attack on the product tanker Mercer Street off the coast of Oman, in which two people died, US has accused Iran.

Five Indian seafarers, who have been stranded in Iran's Chabahar port for two years now, are seeking help of the Indian government to return home.

Israeli defence officials were checking whether Iranian forces were behind a possible attack on a cargo ship under partial Israeli ownership.

In the July edition of ‘The SENTINEL Watch’ providing the merchant shipping industry with an update on maritime security incidents within the Middle East Region, the International Maritime Security Construct informs that the threat in the Southern Red Sea, Bab-el-Mandeb, Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman continues to be Low-Moderate.

Reports began circulating this week in which Iran claimed an agreement has been reached with the US to remove all insurance, oil, and shipping sanctions that have been imposed by the US on Iran.

Iran said on Wednesday that the United States agreed to remove all sanctions on Iran's oil and shipping, amid talks to revive a 2015 nuclear deal, Reuters news agency informed.