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Undated handout photograph shows the Stena Impero, a British-flagged vessel owned by Stena Bulk, at an undisclosed location, obtained by Reuters on July 19, 2019. [Reuters]
Iran said it had seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday but denied Washington’s assertion that the US Navy had downed an Iranian drone nearby this week, as tensions in the Gulf region rose again.
Britain said it was urgently seeking information about the Stena Impero tanker, which had been heading to a port in Saudi Arabia and suddenly changed course after passing through the strait at the mouth of the Gulf.
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