Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they seized two vessels involved in fuel smuggling in the Persian Gulf near Farsi Island.
The navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it discovered more than one million litters of smuggled fuel on board the two vessels and detained 15 foreign crew members, who were handed over to judicial authorities.
The vessels were operating near Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf, the Guards said in a statement carried by state media.
The Guards said the vessels were part of an organized network that had carried out fuel smuggling operations over recent months and were identified through surveillance and intelligence work before being seized.