May 20 (Reuters) – The U.S. military boarded Iranian-flagged commercial oil tanker M/T Celestial Sea in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday after suspecting it had violated a U.S. blockade, U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
U.S. forces released the ship, which was headed toward an Iranian port, after searching it and directing its crew to alter course, the statement said.
(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Ottawa and Ryan Patrick Jones in Toronto; Editing by Katharine Jackson)
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