Iran confirmed on Saturday its Revolutionary Guards had seized a tanker in Gulf waters that was carrying a cargo of petrochemicals bound for Singapore over alleged violations, according to Iranian state media.

On Friday, a U.S. official and maritime security sources said Iranian forces intercepted the oil products tanker and diverted it into Iranian territorial waters.

It was the first report of Tehran seizing a tanker since Israeli-U.S. strikes on Iran in June.

Iranian state-run television read a statement from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) saying "the tanker was in violation for carrying unauthorized cargo." It did not provide further details of the alleged violations.

The Marshall Islands-flagged tanker, the Talara, had been sailing off the coast of the United Arab Em

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