Iranian official Esmaeil Baqaei on Tuesday accused the United States of effectively legitimising piracy after it seized two vessels allegedly carrying.

Earlier reports suggested that Iran was demanding these payments in cryptocurrency, but it is unclear how many vessels have agreed to pay this toll.

U.S. forces have boarded an oil tanker previously sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude oil in Asia, the Pentagon said Tuesday, as it puts into place a global

OFAC sanctioned a major Chinese oil refinery and dozens of Iran-linked shadow fleet vessels in an escalation of the maximum pressure campaign on Tehran.

In the year leading up to its dramatic seizure by US forces in the Indian Ocean, the oil tanker known as the MT Tifani made several trips between Iran and a stretch of water off the coast of Malaysia, around 60 miles from the glitzy skyscrapers of Singapore.

EADaily, April 27th, 2026. Despite the rise in Russian oil prices and the established EU ceiling on raw material prices from Tankers of European companies have returned to transportation from Russian ports.

Tankers transporting Russian oil through the Baltic Sea have begun avoiding Sweden's territorial waters after Swedish authorities started boarding vessels at sea to inspect documentation. Source: Bloomberg Details: Vessel-tracking data collected by Bloomberg show that since 7 April,

An oil tanker with 17 crew members and 18,500 barrels of oil bound for Mogadishu has been hijacked by armed pirates off Somalia’s coast. The Honour 25 was intercepted by six gunmen and later boarded by additional armed men before anchoring near Xaafun ...