SEOUL (AFP): A South Korean delegation left for Iran on Thursday (Jan 7) to negotiate the early release of an oil tanker and its crew seized in strategic Gulf waters this week.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday it had seized the South Korean-flagged Hankuk Chemi -- which it said was carrying 7,200 tonnes of "oil chemical products" -- for infringing maritime environmental laws.
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