IRGC Impounds Foreign Fuel-Smuggling Ship

Date: 10 September 2022 - 21:57

News ID: ۱۰۶۷۷۸

TEHRAN -- Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has seized a foreign vessel in the Persian Gulf for smuggling 757,000 liters of diesel out of the country, IRNA reported on Saturday. The unnamed vessel’s seven crew members, who are foreign nationals, have been handed over to legal authorities, the news agency reported without elaborating on the nationalities of the ship or its crew. Iran has been fighting rampant fuel smuggling. The IRGC has detained several ships in the past few months for smuggling fuel in the Persian Gulf.