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TEHRAN: Iran has seized two oil tankers allegedly carrying smuggled fuel in the Gulf and arrested their crews, state television announced on Friday. "The Revolutionary Guards naval forces seized two ships over the course of the last two days," state television said, citing Mohammad-Sharif Shirali, a Guards commander. "The seized tankers... flying the flags of Panama and Tanzania were transporting more than 1.5 million litres of Iranian oil and gas," he said. "The Guards escorted the confiscated ships to the port of Mahshahr in the country's southwest," Shirali...