State TV releases a video of IRGC forces boarding and detaining the Barbados-flagged vessel, Ocean Koi.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims to have captured an oil tanker, Ocean Koi, in a “special operation” in the Gulf of Oman, saying the vessel was attempting to “disrupt oil exports and the interests of the Iranian nation”, according to state media.
In a statement carried by the Fars news agency, a spokesperson from the army said the Iranian Navy’s “rangers and marines directed the offending tanker to the southern coast of the country”.
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According to the IRNA news agency, a statement from the army said it would “powerfully defend the interests and assets of the Iranian nation in the territorial waters of our country and will not tolerate any…
