Iran says oil tanker managed to run US blockade in the face of 'threats'
The US has been blockading Iran's ports for more than a week.
Iran's army says an Iranian tanker managed to enter the country's territorial waters last night, despite repeated "threats" from the US military, reports Al Jazeera.
"Despite multiple warnings and threats from the naval task force of the US Army … the Iranian oil tanker Sili City, with the operational support of the Army Navy … entered Iranian territorial waters last night after passing through the Arabian Sea," the army's public relations office said in a statement relayed by Iran's Mehr News Agency today (21 April).
The tanker "has been stationed for several hours at one of the anchorages of the southern ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran", adds the statement.
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The US has been blockading Iran's ports for more than a week and yeterday US Central Command said the US military had directed 27 vessels to turn around or return to an Iranian port since the beginning of the blockade.
On Sunday, the US said it had seized an Iranian cargo ship that tried to get through the blockade, prompting threats of retaliation from Tehran.
