Iranian state TV reported July 18 that according to a statement released by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval force, a foreign ship carrying one million liters of smuggled oil was confiscated south of Larak Island near the Strait of Hormuz. According to the IRGC, Iranian ships were on patrol for “organized smugglers” when they came across the tanker and took action “after becoming certain it was smuggling oil through a foreign ship.”
The IRGC statement read that 12 individuals were apprehended and that the seized tanker had the capacity to carry two million liters of oil.