The Venezuelan government has called the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela “a blatant theft and an act of international piracy.” President Donald Trump confirmed that U.S. military forces seized the oil tanker on Wednesday, telling reporters, “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela—large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized, actually,” and that it had been seized for a “very good reason.”
(It is not certain whether it is the largest tanker ever seized by the U.S. military, but, at 1,092 feet in length, it was one of the largest tankers in the world when it was built two decades ago.) The mission involved two helicopters, 10 Coast Guard members, 10 Marines, and special forces. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a post on X that forces had a seizure warrant for the tanker, which had been carrying U.S.-sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran.
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