Footage released by the a news agency affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shows Iranian forces boarding and seizing a Greek Oil Tanker carrying U.S. owned oil in the Gulf of Oman. According to the IRGC, the action was a lawful undertaking sanctioned by a court order and corresponds to the theft of Iran’s very own oil the year prior.

State Department spokesman Vedant Patel told reporters today, "The Iranian government must immediately release the ship and its crew. This unlawful seizure of a commercial vessel is just the latest behavior by Iran or enabled by Iran aimed at disrupting international commerce."

Iran stated that the seizure was in response to the United States 977,000 barrels of Iran's oil, which US prosecutors say were being sold by Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards to China.

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