{"id":658380,"date":"2026-02-06T10:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=658380"},"modified":"2026-02-06T10:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:22:58","slug":"iran-seizes-2-foreign-oil-tankers-in-persian-gulf-ahead-of-talks-with-us-15-crew-members-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-seizes-2-foreign-oil-tankers-in-persian-gulf-ahead-of-talks-with-us-15-crew-members-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran seizes 2 foreign oil tankers in Persian Gulf ahead of talks with US, 15 crew members in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran seized two foreign oil tankers in the Persian Gulf on Thursday, alleging they were smuggling fuel, according to state television. The report did not specify the tankers\u2019 nationalities or the flags they were flying, AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Heidar Honarian Mojarrad, a regional commander in the Revolutionary Guard\u2019s navy, said the tankers were carrying around 1 million litres of fuel (approximately 6,300 barrels), including diesel. They were seized near Farsi Island and transferred to Bushehr, AP reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran seized two foreign oil tankers in the Persian Gulf on Thursday, alleging they were smuggling fuel, according to state television. The report did not specify the tankers\u2019 nationalities or the flags they were flying, AP reported. Gen. Heidar Honarian Mojarrad, a regional commander in the Revolutionary Guard\u2019s navy, said the tankers were carrying around 1 million litres of fuel (approximately 6,300 barrels), including diesel. They were seized near Farsi Island and transferred to Bushehr, AP reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658380","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}