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2019-08-06 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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IRGC seizes fuel vessel in Persian Gulf as US plans to guard oil passage
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 [Rudaw] Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it seized an Iraqi vessel transporting smuggled fuel in the Persian Gulf as part of a continuing effort to combat organized fuel smuggling in the area, as the United States attempts to form a coalition to guard the highly strategic Strait of Hormuz oil transport route.
"On Wednesday evening, July 31 at 21:30, the patrol boats of the Second District Command of IRGC naval forces...seized a foreign ship carrying fuel," said Second Brigadier Ramezan Zirahi, the 2nd Naval District Commander in the Persian Gulf.
The vessel was later confirmed to be "an Iraqi ship," according to the Guard-affiliated IRNA news agency.
"The ship had received fuel from other ships and was in the process of transporting it to Arab countries in the Persian Gulf...the ship which contained 700,000 liters of fuel was stopped and its seven foreign crews were arrested."
Fuel smuggling often takes the form of a larger vessel hovering close to Iranian waters to collect fuel, usually oil, from several, smaller vessels. The statement did not give the nationality of the vessel crew detained in the operation.
The IRGC has divided its coastline in the Persian Gulf into five districts. The commanders of all five were placed on a US Treasury sanctions list in June following the downing of a US reconnaissance drone.
Tehran has been under intense economic pressure after the US government withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal in May 2018, re-imposing crippling sanctions on the country six months later.
US cancellation of oil waivers to eight main customers of Iranian oil in May have been particularly damaging. Rooters reported that Iranian oil exports have dropped from around 2.5 million barrels per day (bpd) in April 2018 to just 100,000 bpd in July of this year.
President Hassan Rouhani and other officials have conceded that US sanctions have dealt a serious blow to the Iranian economy, but maintain that Tehran will not budge under what it calls "economic terrorism."
Tensions between Iran
 ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and the US and its allies was worsened by the IRGC’s July 19 seizure of a British flagged vessel, in response to the early July seizure of an oil tanker carrying two million barrels of Iranian oil believed to have been bound for sanction- afflicted Syria by the British Royal Marines.
A New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
investigation revealed on Saturday that Iran is continuing to sell its oil in defiance of sanctions.
"The Times examined the movements of more than 70 Iranian tankers since May 2, when the American sanctions took full effect. Twelve of the tankers loaded oil after May 2 and delivered it to China or the Eastern Mediterranean, where the buyers may have included Syria or The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor...
," according to the investigation. 
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