Iran's Revolutionary Guard seizes two tankers in a week in Strait of Hormuz

Iran's Revolutionary Guard seized a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker, Niovi, in the Strait of Hormuz, the second such capture by Tehran in under a week amid heightened tensions over its nuclear program. The taking of the oil tanker renewed concerns about Iran threatening maritime traffic in the strait, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all crude passes. The U.S. Navy published surveillance footage shot by an aerial drone of about dozen Guard vessels swarming the tanker around 6:20 a.m. The Niovi had been coming from dry-dock repairs in Dubai, bound for Fujairah on the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates without carrying any cargo.