Vietnam later confirmed capture of its oil tanker, MV Sothys, with the Vietnam's foreign minister saying they held talks with the Iranian authorities to resolve the issue. They also quoted oil tanker's captain as confirming on 27 October 2021 in Tehran that "all 26 members of the crew were in good health and were being well-treated."[12] The Vietnamese oil tanker MV Sothys was released from the Bandar Abbas port on 11 November 2021 without "its original batch of oil."[2] According to Seyyed Mohammad Marandi, a Tehran based analyst, the captured tanker was "one of four tankers carrying Iranian oil to Venezuela that had been seized by the United States in the Atlantic Ocean" in August 2019. "Now the tanker with the same captain & crew & under US military protection has been seized by the IRGC Navy," Marandi said in a tweet.