Iran’s army says an Iranian tanker managed to enter the country’s territorial
waters last night, despite repeated “threats” from the US military.
“Despite multiple warnings and threats from the naval task force of the U.S.
Army … the Iranian oil tanker Sili City, with the operational support of the
Army Navy … entered Iranian territorial waters last night after passing through
the Arabian Sea,” the army’s public relations office said in a statement relayed
by Iran’s Mehr News Agency.
The tanker “has been stationed for several hours at one of the anchorages of the
southern ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran", continued the statement.
