{"id":2024910,"date":"2023-09-07T16:55:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-seizes-nearly-one-million-barrels-of-iranian-oil-being-smuggled-to-china\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T16:57:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:57:46","slug":"u-s-seizes-nearly-one-million-barrels-of-iranian-oil-being-smuggled-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-seizes-nearly-one-million-barrels-of-iranian-oil-being-smuggled-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"US seizes 1M barrels of Iranian oil en route to China."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-seizes-nearly-one-million-barrels-of-iranian-oil-being-smuggled-to-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2024910&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo By U.S. \u2064Navy\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/elizabeth-volberding\">Elizabeth Volberding<br \/><\/a>1:45 PM \u2013 Thursday, \u200dSeptember 7, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>U.S. authorities seized almost one million barrels \u2062of Iranian oil that officials claim \u200dwere illegally smuggled to China earlier this year, according \u2062to recent court records.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Newly \u200bunsealed U.S.\u200b court documents posted on Thursday revealed that Empire Navigation, a Greek shipping business, has\u200b pleaded guilty to\u200b smuggling \u200bIranian crude oil and agreed to pay a $2.4 million fine.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bnow-public lawsuit against\u200c the\u2063 Greek\u200c company,\u2063 which must serve three\u2063 years \u200bof probation,\u2062 is the first time that\u200b American prosecutors seized almost 1 million\u2063 barrels of\u2064 oil from the crude oil ship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinetraffic.com\/en\/ais\/details\/ships\/shipid:713518\/mmsi:538010676\/imo:9524475\/vessel:SUEZ_RAJAN\">Suez \u2064Rajan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the U.S. seized M\/T Suez Rajan, which\u200c led to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard\u2019s\u2062 own efforts to seize two\u200c oil tankers in the \u200cStrait of Hormuz. <\/p>\n<p>According to court filings, assertions from\u2062 U.S. prosecutors \u2063showed that Iran forged the vessel\u2019s cargo records and halted its \u200blocation \u200bfrom being\u200b correctly tracked.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udee2\ufe0f\u200d Greek shipping company fined $2.4M\u2064 for smuggling\u200d sanctioned Iranian crude oil. US prosecutors reveal the seizure of one \u200bmillion barrels from tanker Suez Rajan, shedding light on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-seizes-nearly-one-million-barrels-of-iranian-oil-being-smuggled-to-china\/\" title=\"US seizes 1M barrels of Iranian oil en route to China.\">covert oil smuggling amid sanctions<\/a>. \ud83d\udea2\u26fd <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OilSmuggling?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OilSmuggling<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranSanctions?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranSanctions<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GlobalTrade?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GlobalTrade<\/a> \ud83c\udf0f\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf7 \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FfgONNr8ru\">pic.twitter.com\/FfgONNr8ru<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Realtime Global Data \u2063Intelligence Platform (@KIDataApp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KIDataApp\/status\/1699783585551843417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Since the original seizure occurred\u200d in the spring\u2062 of this year, Rajan has remained off the\u200b coast of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Iran threatened to hold Washington, \u2064D.C.,\u2063 accountable if the cargo \u2064was offloaded. <\/p>\n<p>Therefore, no American corporation agreed to\u2062 remove the barrels since they were afraid of retaliation from Tehran, the capital of Iran. <\/p>\n<p>As\u2063 a result, another vessel was\u200d deployed to finish the \u2062offloading procedure by Empire\u2063 Navigation,\u2062 which was in charge \u2064of the \u200cRajan.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) collectively\u2064 made the decision\u2064 to keep \u2062quiet about the\u2062 operation until all of the oil had been\u2063 discharged\u200c from the vessel.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cGiven\u200d the nature \u200dof the cargo, the sensitivity of this\u200d action, and the time it \u200dwas expected to take to\u200d transport the cargo to the United \u200bStates, revelation of this\u200d action \u200cwas likely to cause security risks to the defendants, the \u2063government, as well as the vessel and its crew members,\u201d the DOJ wrote\u2062 in\u200c a\u200d filing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Greek shipping company has\u2064 now pleaded guilty \u200cto smuggling sanctioned \u2062Iranian crude oil and has been fined $2.4\u2064 million. The company will reportedly face three \u2063years of\u200d probation.<\/p>\n<p>The Strait of Hormuz, a strait between the Persian Gulf \u200band the Gulf of Oman, has remained a highly controversial area between the U.S. Navy \u200cand Iranian forces. <\/p>\n<p>In late August, Iran alleged to have carried \u2064out an \u201cintercept\u201d \u200dagainst a U.S. Navy vessel, however the U.S. described that no such incident occurred. Iran posted highly-edited footage that showed fast attack \u200bvessels\u2062 \u201cintercepting\u201d USS Bataan and \u200dUSS Thomas on August 17<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThat report is\u2064 not true.\u2062 So I don\u2019t know where that\u2019s coming\u200c from, but we\u2019ve \u200bseen this from them before pushing out, I don\u2019t know\u2062 if it\u2019s propaganda, but I would \u200dsay untrue statements, and that\u200b just is not\u2064 accurate,\u201d\u200b Pentagon deputy press secretary \u200dSabrina Singh explained to Fox News Digital in \u2062a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stay \u200dinformed! Receive \u2064breaking news blasts directly to your inbox for\u200c free. 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The seized oil is estimated to be worth around $50 million. 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