SUBMIT PICTURE: An MH-60S helicopter floats airborne with an oil vessel behind-the-scenes in the Strait of Hormuz, December 21, 2018. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed/File Photo

By Yasna Haghdoost (Bloomberg)–Iran has actually apprehended a ship bring smuggled gas near the entryway to the Strait of Hormuz, state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

Sixteen Malaysian staff participants were apprehended. The vessel, obstructed near Abu Musa island, was bring 1.3 million litres of smuggled gas, IRNA claimed, or the matching of simply 8,000 barrels.

“This is the sixth vessel carrying smuggled fuel that the IRGC’s maritime forces have seized,” the marine leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Ali Azmaei, informed IRNA.

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