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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait, wait, wait.

I just heard an expert on CNN say that this was legal.

During the Biden Administration there was a seizure warrant issued for this ship. It was used to ship Iranian oil to skirt sanctions.

It’s a legal, but convenient seizure.[/quote]

Yep.  Completely legal.

Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed in an X post that the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations and the Coast Guard “executed a seizure warrant” on the vessel, which she said was used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran.

“For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations,” Bondi wrote.

Skipper is registered to Triton Navigation, a corporation registered in the Marshall Islands, according to the Treasury Department’s “Specially Designated Nationals” list. [b]Treasury in 2022 called Triton one of a number of “shipping companies critical to the oil smuggling network” supporting Iran’s Hezbollah.[/b]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/10/us-seizes-venezuelan-oil-tanker-00685289?brid=Ewrd8ul70_iHydZ0tbq02Q&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHuF8mNvh1pKjci1MuTJHYW8Xm_XwQP-z-ECWVhwM2RA0-Q20QvDGQMC8JuGd_aem_a-5Yn_MgTrnVwZAIkkJHAQ[/quote]

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