{"id":572819,"date":"2023-04-29T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T04:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=572819"},"modified":"2023-04-29T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T05:32:34","slug":"irans-navy-seizes-oil-tanker-with-24-indian-crew-members-near-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/irans-navy-seizes-oil-tanker-with-24-indian-crew-members-near-oman\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s navy seizes oil tanker with 24 Indian crew members near Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s navy seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker with 24 Indian crew members in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday heading to the US amid wider tensions over Tehran&#8217;s nuclear programme, the latest-such capture in a waterway crucial for global energy supplies.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Navy&#8217;s Mideast-based 5th Fleet identified the vessel as the Advantage Sweet. Satellite tracking data for the vessel from MarineTraffic.com showed it in the Gulf of Oman, just north of Oman&#8217;s capital, Muscat, on Thursday afternoon. It had just come from Kuwait and listed its destination as Houston.<\/p>\n<p>The Advantage Sweet issued a distress call at 1:15 p.m. while in international waters as Iran seized the vessel, the Navy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s navy seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker with 24 Indian crew members in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday heading to the US amid wider tensions over Tehran&#8217;s nuclear programme, the latest-such capture in a waterway crucial for global energy supplies. The U.S. Navy&#8217;s Mideast-based 5th Fleet identified the vessel as the Advantage Sweet. Satellite tracking data for the vessel from MarineTraffic.com showed it in the Gulf of Oman, just north of Oman&#8217;s capital, Muscat, on Thursday afternoon. It had just come from Kuwait and listed its destination as Houston. The Advantage Sweet issued a distress call at 1:15 [&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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572819","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=572819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}