Oil prices have jumped more than 3%, and we are closer to war." This latest tanker seizure adds to the broader tensions between Iran and the United States, which have been strained over issues ...

DUBAI, May 3 (Reuters) - Iran seized a second oil tanker in a week on Wednesday in Gulf waters, and the U.S. State Department called for its release, in the latest escalation in a series of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Iran has seized a second oil tanker in a week, the US Navy said on Wednesday, increasing tensions in one of ...

"The Navy of the Islamic Republic of Iran announced the seizure of an American oil tanker in the waters of the Oman Sea with a court order," Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency, which is ...

The seizure of the tanker was carried out ... when the group United Against Nuclear Iran said it suspected the tanker carried oil from Iran's Khargh Island, its main oil distribution terminal ...

Iran has seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman and is transferring it to an Iranian port in retaliation for the United States confiscating the same vessel and its oil last year, Tasnim News ...

a US-bound tanker of Kuwaiti crude that was chartered by Chevron. A US official said Thursday’s “seizure appears to be in retaliation for a prior US seizure of Iranian oil, which Iran recently ...

The first seizure attempt occurred around 1 ... U.S. Navy received a distress call from the Bahamian-flagged oil tanker. A separate Iranian naval vessel had closed within one mile of the Richmond ...

Iran’s navy seized an oil tanker on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman that once was at the center of a major crisis between Tehran and Washington, officials said, a seizure that further escalates ...

“The oil tanker issued a distress call during the seizure,” the 5th Fleet said. “Iran’s actions are contrary to international law and disruptive to regional security and stabilit ...

The oil tanker, then known as the Suez Rajan ... “immediately release” the crew and the ship. “We condemn the Iranian seizure of the St. Nicholas,” State Department Deputy Spokesperson ...