On 3 November 2021, Iran's IRGC stated that they thwarted an attempt by the United States to capture and detain a tanker carrying Iranian oil in the gulf of Oman.[1] The IRGC said in a media statement that "With the timely and authoritative action of the Guards’ naval forces, the US terrorist navy’s operation to steal Iranian oil in the Sea of Oman failed."[2] IRGC said in a statement on its website Sepahnews, that US forces had seized the tanker, carrying Iranian oil, and transferred the oil to another tanker and then moved it to an "unknown destination".