DUBAI An oil tanker sought by the U.S. over allegedly circumventing sanctions on Iran was hijacked on July 5 off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, a seafarers organization said Wednesday.
Satellite photos showed the vessel in Iranian waters on Tuesday and two of its sailors remained in the Iranian capital.
TankerTrackers.com, a website tracking the oil trade at sea, said it saw the vessel in satellite photos on Tuesday in Iranian waters off Hormuz Island.
The vessel then took on Iranian oil from Kharg Island to sell abroad, the U.S. government said.
It filed a report saying the vessel and its sailors had been abandoned by its owners since March off Khorfakkan.