FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin U.S. forces boarded and seized an oil tanker, the M/T Tifani, overnight on 21 April in the Bay of Bengal, after identifying it as a vessel previously sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude. The Pentagon said the operation was carried out without incident under a “right-of-visit maritime interdiction,” and a defense official confirmed the ship was carrying Iranian oil at the time. Officials are now deciding what to do with the tanker over the next few days, including possibly towing it to the United States or handing it over to another country. RelatedNews Iraq and Pakistan strike deal with Iran to move oil and gas through Hormuz Iran expands its operational area in Hormuz var jnews_module_21370791_0_6a04e194b8e19 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21370791","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"4346,280,131","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_image_tablet":"","ads_image_phone":