Iran Seizes Oil Tanker; US-Stolen Crude Oil To Be Win Back!

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported that a security incident happened in the eastern Oman Sea, 50 miles east of Oman, on Thursday morning, and announced that unidentified individuals boarded a tanker and seized the vessel, and that this center cannot contact the crew of the ship.

The most recent information shows that the name of the seized ship in the Oman Sea is ST NIKOLAS.

According to the studies of the IWN, this oil tanker was moving from the Iraqi port of Basra to Aliaga port on the western coast of Turkey. This tanker was previously operating under the name of SUEZ RAJAN affiliated to the Marshall Islands flag and belonged to the Greek company Empire Navigation. This tanker was seized by the United States on the coast of Singapore in an unknown date after February 2022 and its one million barrels of crude oil were sold; so, it was confiscated by the United States. The US fined the Greek company $2.4 million for smuggling oil to Iran and put the tanker back into operation under the new name St Nikolas.

It should be noted that after this incident, Iran had previously seized two oil tankers, Niovi and Advantage Sweet, in the Oman Sea. The seizure of the St Nikolas tanker, or Suez Rajan (if the news story is correct), can be interpreted as an operation to recover Iran’s property from the United States. Iran has recuperated its oil again!