Tag Archives: Sea of Oman

The Islamic Republic of Iran Navy has seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Sea of Oman and directed it toward the country’s territorial waters after the ship hit an Iranian vessel and tried to flee in violation of maritime regulations. According to the public relations department of the …

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday they thwarted an attempt by the United States to detain a tanker carrying the Islamic Republic’s oil in the Sea of Oman. The American officials said that in reality Iranian forces had seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker last month and U.S. naval forces were …

A fire has broken out on an Israeli-owned cargo ship after it was struck by an “unidentified weapon” in the northern Indian Ocean, a report says. The Israeli vessel was on route to the coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) when it was attacked, Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television network reported …

Iranian Navy announced that it has successfully test-launched short- and long-range missiles in a military exercise in the south of the country. In a military exercise dubbed as ‘brave martyrs of Ramadan’ in the north of the Indian Ocean and Sea of Oman on Thursday, the Navy has test-fired short- …