US denies Iranian account of attempted oil tanker capture

Revolutionary Guards say they thwarted attempt by US to steal Iranian oil in Sea of Oman

Claims by Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) that they thwarted a US attempt to capture Iranian oil on a tanker in the Sea of Oman are untrue, US officials have said.

According to reports in Iranian media - released on the eve of the anniversary of the Iranian seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979 - the US navy interdicted an Iranian oil tanker on 25 October and intended to transfer the oil to a second tanker, but the the IRGC navy intervened by boarding and taking control of the first tanker.