{"id":223727,"date":"2026-01-07T17:48:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=223727"},"modified":"2026-01-07T17:52:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:52:37","slug":"us-moves-to-seize-venezuelan-oil-tanker-in-north-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/223727\/","title":{"rendered":"US moves to seize Venezuelan oil tanker in North Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The US is currently carrying out an operation in a bid to seize a Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the North Atlantic, a US official told CBS News on Wednesday, according to Euronews<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Russia sent a submarine to escort an empty oil tanker the US military has been pursuing and attempting to seize for weeks, according to US media reports.<\/p>\n

US officials said the tanker is part of a shadow fleet carrying oil for countries such as Venezuela, Russia and Iran in violation of US sanctions.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US is currently carrying out an operation in a bid to seize a Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the North Atlantic, a US official told CBS News on Wednesday, according to Euronews. Russia sent a submarine to escort an empty oil tanker the US military has been pursuing and attempting to seize for weeks, according […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":223724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223728,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223727\/revisions\/223728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}