Daily Mail News – UK – Politics
Iran seized a Panama-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, the second-such capture by Tehran in recent days, the U.S. Navy said.
The Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet identified the vessel as the Niovi. It said Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized the ship at 6am local time.
The Navy published pictures of a dozen Guard vessels surrounding the tanker. Those ships ‘forced the oil tanker to reverse course and head toward Iranian territorial waters off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran,’ the Navy said.