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UN agency: US-sought tanker 'hijacked' off UAE now in Iran

by Associated Press
| July 19, 2020 1:03 AM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A United Nations agency acknowledged Sunday that a U.S.-sought oil tanker “hijacked” off the coast of the United Arab Emirates after allegedly smuggling Iranian crude oil is back in Iranian waters.

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