US seizes multi-million-barrel Iranian fuel shipment bound for Venezuela

The US government has seized more than a million barrels of Iranian fuel contained in four tanker ships bound for Venezuela.
The Iranian-flagged oil tanker Fortune is docked at the El Palito refinery after its arrival to Puerto Cabello in the northern state of Carabobo, Venezuela, on May 25, 2020. - The first of five Iranian tankers carrying much-needed gasoline and oil derivatives docked in Venezuela on Monday, Caracas announced amid concern in Washington over the burgeoning relationship between countries it sees as international pariahs. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
The Iranian-flagged oil tanker Fortune is docked at the El Palito refinery after its arrival to Puerto Cabello in the northern state of Carabobo, Venezuela, on May 25, 2020. - AFP via Getty Images
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Jared Szuba
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The US government seized more than a million barrels of Iranian fuel contained in four tanker ships bound for Venezuela, the Department of Justice announced Friday. It's Washington’s largest confiscation of Iranian fuel so far.

The seizure comes just over a month after federal prosecutors in Washington, DC, filed a confiscation suit for the cargo of the four ships: the Luna, the Pandi, the Bella and the Bering.

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