Iran briefly seized oil tanker near Strait of Hormuz, U.S. says

The Iranian navy boarded and briefly seized a Liberian-flagged oil tanker near the strategic Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions between Tehran and the U.S., a U.S. military official said Thursday.

The U.S. military’s Central Command published a black and white video showing what appeared to be special forces fast-roping down from a helicopter onto the MV Wila, whose last position appeared to be off the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates near the city of Khorfakkan. The Iranian navy held the vessel for some five hours before releasing it Wednesday, said a U.S. military official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss details not yet made public. The Wila made no distress calls before, during and after the seizure, the official said.

The Iranian helicopter involved appeared to be a Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King, which only Iran’s navy operates. The Iranian navy also handles all operations in the Gulf of Oman on the eastern side of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of all oil traded passes. Two other Iranian naval vessels took part in the seizure, Central Command said.The U.S. military officials did not offer any reason for Iran seizing the vessel.

Officials in the UAE, a U.S.-allied federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula, did not respond to a request for comment. The Wila’s registered owner is a Liberian firm called Bandit Shipping Co., managed by Greek firm IMS SA, according to United Nations records. Neither firm could be immediately reached.

The Trump Administration withdrew from Obama’s flawed Iranian nuclear deal which neither ended Iran’s nuclear ambitions nor curbed its destabilizing activities.

CLINTON can't talk, ❤ problem given, 2001, BUSH also can't, detonable. The staff called me ARAB QUEEN TO BE & PUT OUR LIVES IN DANGER, NO GOV HELP, NO 911 JOB SO AS TO 'LEARN OF ISLAM' as they phrased it, FAMILY AT WTC DEAD/no benefits, ENGLAND uses my 1st name/dead if USA help

اللي مهتم لتعلم الفوركس للمبتدئين تواصل معي على قناتي

Well they probably need oil since the west has fucked the middle east

During the Obama administration !

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