US Navy says Iran seized Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker - WTOP News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Iran should immediately release the oil tanker."
48% : Thursday's seizure by Iran was the latest in a string of hijackings and explosions to roil a region that includes the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all traded oil passes.
42% : The U.S. Navy said Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday amid wider tensions over Tehran's nuclear program.
31% : Also, the U.S. Navy has blamed Iran for a series of limpet mine attacks on vessels that damaged tankers in 2019, as well as for a fatal drone attack on an Israeli-linked oil tanker that killed two European crew members in 2021.
30% : The incidents began after then-President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from Iran's nuclear deal with world powers, which saw Tehran drastically limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
27% : Iran did not immediately acknowledge the seizure and Iran's mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
22% :Tehran denies carrying out the attacks, but a wider shadow war between Iran and the West has played out in the region's volatile waters.

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