Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed on Friday they had actually taken a vessel in Gulf waters packed with 250,000 litres of smuggled gas, the Iranian state information company IRNA reported.
Iran, which has a few of the globe’s least expensive gas rates because of hefty state aids and also the autumn of its money, has actually been dealing with widespread gas contraband by land to bordering states and also by sea to Gulf Arab states. It has actually often taken watercrafts it claims are being utilized for contraband oil in the Gulf.
The ship’s 7 staff have actually been restrained, IRNA claimed, mentioning a Guards representative,Gholamhossein Hosseini A Guards main informed state television that the staff contained Iranians and also immigrants, without providing information.
Last week the Guards took an international vessel bring 220,000 litres of smuggled gas in the Gulf and also restrained its staff of 11, Iranian media reported.
(Reporting by Yomna Ehab in Cairo and also Dubai newsroom; editing and enhancing by John Stonestreet and also Gareth Jones)
