The Iranian Navy announced that it had seized a tanker carrying Iraqi oil based on a judicial order. It was sailing through the Gulf of Oman, heading to Türkiye. The Iranian news agency IRNA reported that the navy was talking about an American tanker. The ship had previously sailed under a different name, the Suez Rajan, and was involved in a conflict between Iran and the United States last year.
The ship is now called St. Nicholas and sails under the flag of the Marshall Islands. In Athens, the shipping company Empire Navigation announced that the ship St. Nicholas had been hijacked. The shipping company talks about a Greek ship with a crew of nineteen people: one Greek and eighteen Filipinos.
The first reports came from organizations that monitor shipping and are involved in ship security. For example, an oil tanker was reportedly sailing about 100 kilometers off the coast of Oman, and was overpowered by four or five armed men. The men were wearing military uniform, according to shipping security officers from UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO). Contact with Saint Nicholas was soon lost. The ship is now expected to head to the Iranian port of Bandar Jask.
The conflict between Iran and the United States
The ship was commissioned by the Americans last year as the “Suez Rajan” because it would transport Iranian oil from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to China. This would violate US sanctions against Iran and the Revolutionary Guard. The Americans seized one million barrels of Iranian oil. Some observers describe the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a state within a state. With many structures, they not only constitute the elite forces of the Islamic Republic, but are also active in the economic sphere and enjoy great influence.
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