Philippines claims: Iran released 18 crew members of the St. Nicholas oil tanker

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, Ministry of Affairs The Philippine Foreign Ministry claimed in a statement that all 18 Filipino crew members of the seized oil tanker “Saint Nicholas” which was seized by Iran, have been released and returned to this country.

According to the report of the Philippine news agency, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this country, these 18 crew members were returned to the country en masse, and the last group of six people arrived in Manila last week.

The statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines stated: “The Philippine government thanks the Iranian authorities for their understanding in this regard.”

Previously, the Public Relations of the Navy announced last December that following the violation of the Suez Rajan ship in May of this year and the theft of Iranian oil by the United States, the oil tanker named Nicholas ST was arrested.

This year, under the guidance of the United States, he had stolen the oil cargo belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran and transferred it to the ports of that country and provided it to the United States. This tanker, renamed to Nicholas ST, was carrying oil in the Oman Sea, which was seized by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Strategic Navy with a court order and the approval of the Ports and Shipping Organization, in retaliation for the theft of oil by the American regime.

Seizure of an American oil tanker by the Navy