{"id":150558,"date":"2023-12-08T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150558"},"modified":"2023-12-08T10:00:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:00:47","slug":"iran-takes-tankers-in-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150558","title":{"rendered":"Iran Takes Tankers in Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-150560 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mantis-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mantis-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mantis.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Iran Seizes 2 Oil Tankers in Persian Gulf<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Michael Katz<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iran reportedly seized two oil tankers in the Persian Gulf on Wednesday, claiming the vessels were smuggling fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Ozmaee, commander of the Fifth Naval Region of Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), told the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency one of the tankers carried 600,000 gallons of fuel and had 13 foreign nationals, The Jerusalem Post reported. The other tanker carried more than 790,000 gallons of fuel and had 21 foreign nationals on board.<\/p>\n<p>The vessels were seized south of Abu Musa Island, located between Iran and the United Arab Emirates, the Post reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/world\/globaltalk\/iran-oil-tankers-seized\/2023\/12\/07\/id\/1145202\/\">Newsmax<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because this worked so well for the Iranians before, and the current administration really needs a distraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran Seizes 2 Oil Tankers in Persian Gulf By Michael Katz Iran reportedly seized two oil &hellip; <a title=\"Iran Takes Tankers in Gulf\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150558\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran Takes Tankers in Gulf<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":150560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran","category-the-stupid-is-strong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}