Earlier on Tuesday, IDF fighter jets hit a number of Hezbollah terror targets in Lebanon on Tuesday morning, the IDF stated.
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The DOJ said it also seized more than 520,000 barrels of Iran's oil aboard the crude tanker Abyss that were covered by US sanctions.
Reuters has tracked at least 22 other oil tankers to have diverted or paused since last Friday's warning from the US-led Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) in Bahrain.
Iran seized the St Nikolas, loaded with Iraqi crude destined for Turkey, in retaliation for the confiscation last year of the same vessel and its Iranian oil cargo by the US, Iranian state media said
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An official said pipes at the entrance of unit 3 of the refinery caught fire. He did not say what caused the pipes to catch fire.
Iranian officials received an order to evacuate a nearby factory as firefighting forces continued to battle the flames.
The report did not state what countries the vessels or the crew were from.