Fresh off of the US targeting a series of companies involved in an Iran-linked oil smuggling network , the US has now seized an oil tanker near Greece, taking the Iranian oil within to be sent to the US . The oil was on a Russian-operated ship , which had been singled out for US targeting in February. It was then called the Pegas. The company renamed the ship the Lana and was Russian flagged. Greece had impounded the Pegas and its Russian crew last month over the invasion of Ukraine, but ultimately released it. Neither the US nor Russia is commenting. Greece says the US informed them the oil was Iranian, and that the US hired a different ship to take the oil to America. Iran has summoned the Greek charges d’affaires and called the incident a “clear example of piracy.” The US accused the tanker of loading […]