 Iran seizes US-bound oil tanker in Gulf of Oman. Iran on Thursday seized in the Gulf of Oman a Marshall Islands flag oil tanker bound to Texas. The Iranian state television released on Friday the footage of its navy commandos conducting a helicopter-borne raid to seize the tanker. Tehran has claimed that the tanker was seized after it collided with another Iranian vessel but has provided no evidence yet to support the claim. The US Navy has identified the vessel as the Advantage Suite. The vessel's manager, a Turkish firm called Advantage Tankers, issued a statement acknowledging the Advantage Suite was being escorted by the Iranian Navy to a port on the basis of an international dispute. All the ship's 24 crew members are Indian. The US Navy's fifth fleet has said the Iranian seizure was at least the fifth commercial vessel taken by Tehran in the last two years.