A Vietnamese oil tanker earlier seized by Iran was free in open water Wednesday. The Sothys left a position off Iran's Bandar Abbas port and had reached international waters in the nearby Gulf of Oman early Wednesday, data analyzed by The Associated Press from MarineTraffic.com showed. The vessel appeared anchored there, but there was no information about its crew.
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Shahrokh Nazemi, a spokesperson for Iran's mission to the United Nations, told the AP on Wednesday that "Sothys left Iranian waters last night after transferring the oil."
Later Wednesday, Iran's state-run IRNA news agency confirmed the report and said the country's powerful Revolutionary Guard had released the Vietnamese tanker after draining the Iranian oil from it, under a court order. The report did not elaborate on the time.
