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The
unnamed vessel's seven crew members, who are foreign nationals,
have been handed over to legal authorities, IRNA reported
without elaborating on the nationalities of the ship or its
crew.
Iran, which has some of the world's cheapest fuel prices due to
heavy subsidies and the plunge in value of its national
currency, has been fighting rampant fuel smuggling by land to
neighbouring countries and by sea to Gulf Arab states.
The Guards have detained several ships in the past few months
for smuggling fuel in the Gulf.
(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Editing by David Holmes)
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