{"id":46395,"date":"2026-04-23T08:47:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=46395"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:47:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:02:44","slug":"us-intercepts-three-iranian-oil-tankers-in-asian-waters-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/us-intercepts-three-iranian-oil-tankers-in-asian-waters-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"US intercepts three Iranian oil tankers in Asian waters, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reuters :\u00a0 The U.S. military has intercepted at least three Iranian-flagged tankers in \u200cAsian waters and is redirecting them away from their positions near India, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, shipping and security sources said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Washington has imposed a blockade on Iran’s trade by sea while Iran has fired on ships to prevent them sailing through the Strait of Hormuz waterway at the entrance to the Middle \u200bEast Gulf. Nearly two months after the U.S. and Israel began their war on Iran, there is little sign of peace \u200btalks resuming during an uneasy ceasefire.<\/p>\n

The closure of the strait has disrupted supply of a fifth of the \u2060world’s oil and gas supplies, and caused a global energy crisis. U.S. forces have seized an Iranian cargo ship and an oil tanker in \u200brecent days. Iran said it had captured two container ships seeking to exit the Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday after firing \u200bon them and another vessel, its first seizures since the war began.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has diverted at least three more Iranian-flagged oil tankers in recent days, according to two US and Indian shipping sources and two separate Western maritime security source who spoke to Reuters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The U.S. military did not immediately respond to a \u200brequest for comment on the interceptions.<\/p>\n

One of the vessels was the Iranian-flagged Deep Sea supertanker, which was part loaded with crude and last \u200bseen on its public tracking transponder off Malaysia’s coast a week ago, according to the sources and ship tracking data on the MarineTraffic platform.
\nThe smaller Iranian-flagged Sevin, which \u200chad a \u2060maximum capacity of 1 million barrels and was carrying 65% of its load, was also intercepted. The vessel was last seen off Malaysia\u2019s coast a month ago, ship tracking data showed.<\/p>\n

The Iranian-flagged supertanker Dorena was also intercepted, fully loaded with 2 million barrels of crude, and last seen off the coast of southern India three days ago, according to the sources and ship tracking data on the MarineTraffic platform.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Central \u200bCommand said on Wednesday in a post \u200bon X, opens new tab that the Dorena \u2060has been under the escort of a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Indian Ocean after attempting to violate the blockade.<\/p>\n

U.S. forces may have intercepted the Iranian-flagged Derya tanker, shipping sources said. The vessel failed to discharge \u200bits cargo of Iranian oil in India before a U.S. waiver on Iranian crude purchases expired on \u200bSunday. That vessel was \u2060last seen off India\u2019s western coast on Friday, according to MarineTraffic data.<\/p>\n

U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday that since the start of its blockade against ships entering or exiting Iranian ports, U.S. forces had directed 29 vessels to turn around or return to port, opens new tab.<\/p>\n

The U.S. military has not listed all the \u2060ships it \u200bhas intercepted and did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the Deyra \u200band the Deep Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters :\u00a0 The U.S. military has intercepted at least three Iranian-flagged tankers in \u200cAsian waters and is redirecting them away from their positions near India, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, shipping and security sources said on Wednesday. Washington has imposed a blockade on Iran’s trade by sea while Iran has fired on ships to prevent them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46397,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46395\/revisions\/46397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}