The United States seized an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast that was used to ship sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Wednesday.

“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela—large tanker, very large, largest one ever, actually, and other things are happening,” U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters.

Trump has been pressuring Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to leave office and has threatened military action on Venezuelan soil and increasing strikes at sea.

Patel and Bondi stated that a seizure warrant was carried out on the unnamed tanker.

Vanguard, a British maritime risk management group, said the seized tanker, reportedly carrying 1.1 million barrels of heavy crude, is thought to be one th

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