DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s navy seized an oil tanker on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman that once was at the center of a major crisis between Tehran and Washington, officials said ...

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A second British-owned Liberian-flagged tanker was boarded by armed ... In response to the seizure, Iran threatened to seize a British oil tanker. On 9 July, the UK raised the threat to British ...

Oil prices have risen after Iran seized a tanker off the coast of Oman, raising concerns fuel prices could increase. The oil tanker was heading for Turkey on Thursday when armed men ordered it to ...

A spokeswoman for the Athens-based company Polembros identified the second tanker ... since Greece seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker and its Iranian cargo last month. Iran's foreign ministry ...

The Guards' naval forces captured it near the Arash oil field, a disputed rig between Iran ... second such seizure in less than a week. On July 22, the Guards seized another Togo-flagged oil ...

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LONDON — Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker Friday and briefly detained a second vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, intensifying tensions in the strategic waterway that has become a ...

An oil tanker held by Iran for over a year after being seized amid tensions between Tehran and the United States reached international waters Thursday, tracking data showed. The Marshall Islands ...

Military and shipping analysts have observed the National Iranian Tanker Company ... the country's largest oil terminal. The island in the Persian Gulf handles 90 percent of Iran's oil exports.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s navy captured an oil tanker Thursday in the Gulf of Oman that only months earlier had seen its cargo of Iranian oil seized by the United States over ...