Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy claims it seized two vessels near Farsi Island that were carrying smuggled fuel, Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported on Thursday.
The IRGC Navy’s Public Relations Department alleged that more than one million liters of fuel were found on the ships. The 15 foreign crew members were referred to the judicial authorities.
According to ISNA, the vessels had been operating within a smuggling network over the past several months and were intercepted through monitoring, intelligence work, and IRGC naval operations.
'Strait of Hormuz will be the place of massacre, hell for the US'
Later on Thursday, Ezzatollah Zarghami, former minister and former head of Iran’s state broadcasting organization (IRIB), warned that "the Strait of Hormuz will be the place of massacre and hell."
"I am sure that the Strait of Hormuz will be the place of massacre and hell for the US... Iran will show that the Strait of Hormuz has historically belonged to Iran. The only thing the Americans can think of is playing with their vessels and moving them from one place to another,” he continued.
This is a developing story.