Iran has seized a vessel over alleged fuel smuggling. Reuters cited the semi-official Tasnim news agency as saying the operation took place on Sunday. The unnamed small ship was carrying 350,000 litres of fuel. Iran said it was flying the flag of the landlocked country of Eswatini.

Iranian forces regularly target tankers that Tehran accuses of illegally transporting fuel in the Strait of Hormuz. Earlier in November they captured a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker in the geographically pivotal waters. The authorities said "the tanker was in violation for carrying unauthorised cargo" without providing specifics.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A tanker transiting through the narrow Strait of Hormuz suddenly changed course into Iranian territorial waters Friday, with the British military warning a possible “state activity” affected it. The warning from the ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday, a U.S. official said, turning the ship into Iranian territorial waters in the first-such interdiction in ...

A U.S. Navy patrol boat fired warning shots Tuesday near an Iranian vessel that American sailors said came dangerously close to them during a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf, the first such incident to happen under President Donald Trump. Iran's hard ...