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Second oil tanker seized by Iran

By Zach Halaschak
Published July 19, 2019 7:25pm ET
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Second oil tanker seized by Iran
Iranian flags fly in front of a U.N. building, where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran take place in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, July 2, 2014. | (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

A second tanker owned by a United Kingdom-based company was seized by Iran on Friday but was released with a warning.

After Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed they seized a British oil tanker, the Stena Impero, a U.S. official confirmed that a second ship, the Liberian-flagged MV Mesdar, was also seized in the Strait of Hormuz within an hour.

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