The US Navy’s Fifth Fleet said in a statement that the tanker’s name is “Niofi”, adding that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards had seized the tanker.
The statement added: “Iranian Revolutionary Guards forced the tanker to turn around and head towards Iranian territorial waters off the Iranian coast of Bandar Abbas.
The US Navy has released images of guard ships surrounding the tanker.
For its part, Iran’s official Tasnim news agency said, “Iranian Revolutionary Guard naval forces have seized an offending foreign tanker in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz,” without mentioning the source.
Late last month, the US Navy said Iran had seized a tanker flying the flag of the Marshall Islands in the Gulf of Oman.
For its part, the Iranian army spoke at the time of the loss of two crew members of an Iranian ship and the injury of others, following a collision in the waters of the Gulf with an oil tanker. she seized following the accident.
The US Fifth Fleet said satellite tracking data from the ‘MarinTraffic.com’ website showed the vessel, which is named ‘Advantage Suite’, was in the Gulf of Oman.
The Fifth Fleet said April 27 that the “Advantage Suite” made a distress call at 1:15 p.m. while in international waters when Iran took control of the tanker.
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