{"id":286463,"date":"2019-08-07T06:07:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T06:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=286463"},"modified":"2019-08-07T06:16:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T06:16:53","slug":"iran-seizes-iraqi-oil-ship-7-held","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-seizes-iraqi-oil-ship-7-held\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran seizes Iraqi oil ship, 7 held"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized an Iraqi oil tanker in the Persian Gulf which they said was smuggling fuel and detained seven crewmen, Iran\u2019s state media reported on Sunday, in a show of power amid heightened tension with the West.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel was intercepted near Iran\u2019s Farsi Island in the Gulf, Iran\u2019s semi-official Fars news agency said. The elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has a navy base on Farsi Island, which is located north of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IRGC\u2019s naval forces have seized a foreign oil tanker in the Persian Gulf that was smuggling fuel for some Arab countries,\u201d the Guards commander Ramezan Zirahi told state TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized an Iraqi oil tanker in the Persian Gulf which they said was smuggling fuel and detained seven crewmen, Iran\u2019s state media reported on Sunday, in a show of power amid heightened tension with the West. The vessel was intercepted near Iran\u2019s Farsi Island in the Gulf, Iran\u2019s semi-official Fars news agency said. The elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has a navy base on Farsi Island, which is located north of the Strait of Hormuz. \u201cThe IRGC\u2019s naval forces have seized a foreign oil tanker in the Persian Gulf that was smuggling fuel for some Arab countries,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,215,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}