The chief justice of Iran’s Hormozgan Province says a recently seized tanker and its fuel cargo worth more than five million dollars will be transferred to government ownership.

The Venezuelan government categorically denounces the United States’ “theft and hijacking” of a second oil tanker off the country’s coast, vowing to pursue legal avenues against Washington, including filing a complaint with the UN.

Ukraine says it has struck a Russian “shadow fleet” oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea.

Venezuela protests to the United Nations Security Council over the United States recent seizure of one of its oil tankers.

Iran has seized a foreign-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on charges of smuggling six million liters of fuel, detaining 18 crew members, according to Iranian media reports.

Iran condemns the US Navy’s attack on a commercial vessel carrying Venezuelan oil off the coast of the South American country as an “act of state piracy,” warning about the consequences of such coercive measures.

The Iranian embassy in Caracas says the US seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela is piracy in the Caribbean Sea.