ISWNews Analysis Group: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that the confiscated oil tanker SOTHYS was released by court order after Iranian oil was unloaded in Bandar Abbas.

According to Iranian official statements, during an operation in Sea of Oman, US warships confiscated an Iranian oil tanker carrying export oil and were transporting its oil cargo to another tanker, SOTHYS, to an unknown destination. Simultaneously with this apparent piracy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy carried out a heliborne operation and IRGC troops […]