{"id":58696,"date":"2025-12-26T16:24:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T12:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=58696"},"modified":"2025-12-26T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T12:54:27","slug":"iran-to-keep-fuel-cargo-seized-from-foreign-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/58696\/iran-to-keep-fuel-cargo-seized-from-foreign-tanker\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to keep fuel cargo seized from foreign tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Mojtaba Ghahremani made the announcement on Friday, two days after Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution\u00a0Guard Corps (IRGC)\u00a0seized the foreign ship carrying about 4 million liters of smuggled fuel near Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>He said the measure came in line with the directives of Iran\u2019s Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Eje on preventing fuel smuggling and taking action against it, Press TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe oil tanker and its cargo, worth nearly 7,000 billion riyals (over $5,200,000), will be taken over by the government,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ghahremani also noted that IRGC forces arrested 16 foreign crew members on board the tanker and handed them over to judicial officials.<\/p>\n<p>A case concerning the violations of the vessel has been filed with Qeshm\u2019s Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor\u2019s Office, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Hormozgan\u2019s chief justice emphasized that Iran\u2019s Judiciary considers the fight against fuel smuggling a key priority in safeguarding economic development and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Vowing relentless fight against fuel smuggling, he further warned that the waters of the Persian Gulf, along with Iran\u2019s coasts and islands, will never be safe for smugglers.<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC has mounted its crackdown on fuel smuggling in the Persian Gulf amid a rise in such cases, which experts attribute to the growing gap between Iran\u2019s low domestic fuel prices and higher rates in neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>In late November, the force seized an Eswatini-flagged vessel carrying 350,000 liters of smuggled fuel.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mojtaba Ghahremani made the announcement on Friday, two days after Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolution\u00a0Guard Corps (IRGC)\u00a0seized the foreign ship carrying about 4 million liters of smuggled fuel near Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf. He said the measure came in line with the directives of Iran\u2019s Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Eje on preventing fuel smuggling and taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-and-markets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}