Satellite view of a sweeping dust storm over the Strait of Hormuz, extending across the Gulf of Oman. Iran seized a foreign oil tanker as it traveled the strategic Strait of Hormuz, state media said Friday. Mojtaba Ghahramani, a provincial chief of the justice department, said the oil tanker was carrying some 25,000 barrels of smuggled fuel when the Revolutionary Guard naval forces seized the vessel, the official IRNA news agency reported. In November, Iran seized a ship as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz over what it said were violations, including carrying an illegal consignment. AdvertisementTehran has long threatened to close off the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of all traded oil passes.
