US Navy seized Iranian petroleum products and hundreds of missiles from vessels in Arabian Sea
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The US Navy seized hundreds of Iranian missiles and 1.1 million barrels of Iranian petroleum products from vessels in the Arabian Sea in what became the US government's "largest-ever forfeiture of fuel and weapons shipments from Iran," according to a release from the Justice Department.
The weapons, the department said in the Tuesday release, were seized by the US during "routine maritime security operations."
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps organized the shipments of weapons, which were bound for Houthi militias in Yemen, the Justice Department said. The petroleum was taken from "four foreign-flagged tankers in or around the Arabian Sea while en route to Venezuela," according to the release.
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