Oil tanker sanctioned by US, later found off Iran was hijacked, says captain

A missing crude oil tanker subject to US government sanctions over alleged involvement in Iran’s oil exportation was hijacked, according to the ship’s captain.

The MT Gulf Sky, which has been based in the United Arab Emirates for months, stopped transmitting its location on July 5. The Dominica-flagged ship was then spotted on satellite imagery just a few miles off Iran’s coast near Hormuz Island on Tuesday by TankerTrackers, a website that monitors maritime oil trade, the Associated Press first reported.